| A | B |
|---|
| Estates General | a meeting of all three estates |
| bourgeoisie | the middle class of France, considered to be in the Third Estate |
| Louis XVI | king of France when the revolution took place, was executed by the revolutionaries |
| "let them eat cake" | statement made by Marie Antoinette when a mob of hungry women marched on Versailles |
| "liberty, equality, fraternity" | three basic principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen |
| Jacobins | extreme radicals; let by Maximilien Robespierre, George-Jacques Danton, and Jean-Paul Marat |
| Committee of Public Safety | formed by the National Convention to direct the entire war effort |
| Old Regime | the three estate system |
| Reign of Terror | a year of mob attacks, lack of control, and conflict; led by Robespierre |
| Robespierre | leader of the Jacobins who killed those who did not agree with him |
| Napoleon | great military general; crowned himself Emperor of France |
| coup d'etat | a quick seizure of power |
| Napoleonic Code | made French law clear and consistent, it curtained the freedom of speech and press by permitting the censorship of books, plays, and pamphlets |
| Consulate | an executive branch with a committee of three members called consuls |
| censorship | the changing or the suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is condemned as subversive of the common good |
| Concordat of 1801 | Napoleon acknowledged that Catholicism was the religion of the majority of the French people but affirmed religious toleration for all |
| Continental System | he ordered all European nations that he conquered to stop trade wiht Britain |
| Peninsular War | British Vs. French in Spain, Brits trying to help Spain overthrow the French |
| "scorched earth policy" | Russians used, which was to burn everything useful to prevent the things being used |
| "won every battle, but lost everything" | phrase used for Napoleon's conquests - he wont the battles, but didn't really win anything. He lost more than he won. |
| Waterloo | battle where Napoleon was defeated and exiled to St. Helena |
| buffer states | land between the countries that served as a neutral space |
| reactionaries | people who opposed change and wanted to return things to the way they had been in earlier times |
| liberalism | political philosophy that accepted the ideas of the enlightenment and the deomocratic reforms of the French Revolution |
| guillotine | a machine used to chop off heads |
