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| National Assembly | revolutionary body that passed the Declaration of the rights of man |
| Marie Antoinette | wife of Louis XVI, also executed |
| "let them eat cake" | statement made by Marie Antoinette when a mob of hyngry women marched on Versailles |
| Tennis Court Oath | the third estates removal from the former governing body and its forming of a new one |
| Bastille | A prison that was stormed; representing the revolution |
| Political System | people sat according to beliefs, royalists on one side, radicals on the other |
| Flight to Varennes | Louis fled from his home to escape the people |
| Republic | a self-governing body of representatives |
| National Convention | The governing body that had to approve all of hte kings actions involving money |
| Jacobins | Extreme radicals and supports of "sans-culottes' |
| Committee of Public Safety | a committee which was given unlimited power in order to do whatever was neccessary to save France |
| Reign of Terror | a period of time when Robespierre took control and executed those who opposed him |
| Robespierre | leader of the Committee of Public Safety. Tooke control of France and led Reign of Terror |
| Directory | a council formed after the Reign of Terror to govern France; Used two-house legislature Followed a constitution that stated only male landowners could vote, basically giving the middle class control of France |
| Guillotine | Machine consisting of a blade connectged to a rope or chain; Used in executions |
| Congress of Vienna | Sept 1804- june 1815, The congress of Vienna was set up to create a balnce olf power, throughtu Erope, like it had been before Napoleon |
| Prince Metternich of Austria | Member of Congress of Vienna. Believed in conpensation for contries, legitimacy of politacl power, and ballance of power |
| buffer states | neutral territory around France |
| Reactionaries | people who opposed change and wanted to return things to the way they were |
| Conservatism | in politics, the desire to maintain or conserve the existing order |
| Liberalism | political philosophy influencing Europeans in the 1800's |
| Concert of Europ | designated a loose agreement by the major Eurpean powers to acto togethe oon European questions of common interst. |
| censorship | limiting the freedom of speech and press for the benefit of the national interest |
| Napoleonic Code | the code of laws writen by Napoleon which is still the basis of the French law today |
| scorched earth policy | the policy used by Russians where as they retreated the burned everything they left behind |
