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| Marie Antoinette | Louis XVI’s queen who became known as “Madame Deficit” because she spent money on things like jewels even though France was in big debt. |
| Louis XVI | the king of France during the French Revolution who was a weak leader |
| National Assembly | a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people |
| Great Fear | a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. |
| Declaration of the rights of man | a statement of revolutionary ideas that gave citizens the rights of equal justice, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion |
| legislative Assembly | a French Congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war |
| Three Estates | large social classes, where the first estate consisted of the clergy, the second estate consisted of the rich nobles, and the third was made up of the bourgeoisie, tradespeople, peasants, apprentices, laborers and domestic servants. |
| Enlightenment | a new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems. |
| Estates General | an assembly of representatives from all three states |
| Sans-culottes | in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages. |
| Guillotine | a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
| Maximilien Robespierre | a Jacobin leader who gained power and ruled France during the Reign of Terror until he was guillotined |
| Jacobians | of a radical political organization called the Jacobin Club who were involved in most of the government changes. |
| Reign of Terror | the period from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |
