A | B |
Jacobin revolutionary who led the Reign of Terror | Maximilien Robespierre |
French emperor who dominated Europe in the early 1800s | Napoleon |
King who called a meeting of the Estates-General for the first time in 175 years | Louis XVI |
believed that France could achieve a "republic of virtue" only through terror | Maximilien Robespierre |
method for carrying out executions during the Reign of Terror | guillotine |
the old order in which France was divided into three social classes | Old Regime |
group of laws that reflected Enlightenment principles | Napoleonic Code |
working-class revolutionaries | sans-culottes |
to give up power | abdicate |
spending more money than is taken in | deficit spending |