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| Louis XV | Concerned with mistresses, absolutist rule challenged, France into financial crisis b/c of War of Austrian Succession, income tax causes great protest, his chancellor abolished existing parliaments and established docile parliament of royal officials. |
| Marie Antoinette | Queen of France during French Rev. Hated by peasants who stormed her palace in an attempt to kill her. Married to Louis XVI |
| Edmund Burke | English author who defended inherited privileges of the English monarchy and aristocracy. Said revolution would lead to tyranny and chaos. Wrote "Reflections on the Revolution in Paris" |
| Jacques Louis David | Member of the Commitee of General Security. Assigned arrested people to guillotine. Napoleon's official painter. Helped organize the Louvre. |
| Pope Pius VII | Pope who signed Concordat of 1801 with Napoleon. Pope from 1800-1823. |
| Olympe de Gouges | French theatrical writer who wrote The Rights of Women. Women's rights activist. Guilllotined by Robespierre in 1793 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman who fought for the Americans in the American Revolution. Appointed head of Parisian armed forces after storming of the Bastille |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Pro-revolutionary who was angered by Burke's book defending the monarchy. She wrote Vindication for the Rights of Man and Vindication for the Rights of Woman. Also a womens rights activist. |
| Abbe Emmanuel Sieyes | Wrote "What is the Third Estate?" Powerful member of the National Assembly |
| Louis XVI | Important king who ruled up until the French Revolution. Called the Estates General b/c of financial crisis. Tried to flee France when National Assembly was formed. Eventually guillotined. |
| Louis XVIII | King of France after the French Revolution. Instituted Constitutional Charter, accepting many revolutionary changes. Cooperated with foreign powers, unlike Napoleon, and was treated leniently by enemies of Napoleon. Ovethrown by Napoleon, who soon after was defeated at Waterloo. |
| Maximillien Robespierre | Powerful revolutionary who instituted the Reign of Terror. Member of the Mountain, and formed the Committee of Public Safety. Tried and executed many people opposed to him in the least. After he executed his good friend Danton, he was eventually executed himself. |
| Jacques Roux | French journalist and former priest who spoke on behalf on the sans-culottes to the National Convention in 1792. Hated oppression of upper classes. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Great general and politician who engaged in military conquests and dictatorship over much of Western and Central Europe following the French Revolution. |
| Georges Jacques Danton | Lawyer and member of National Convention who worked with Robespierre as leaders of the Mountain. Eventually betrayed and guillotined by Robespierre. |
