| A | B |
|---|
| Old Regime | period before 1789 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times |
| book written by Charles Dickens | Tale of Two Cities |
| Estates | French Social Classes |
| First Estate | Clergy, 1% of popluation, 10% of land |
| Second Estate | Nobles and Army officers, 2% of population, 30%land |
| Third Estate | 97% of population, paid most of taxes |
| Bourgeoisie | middle class (lawyers, Dr.s, merchants) |
| Taille | chief French tax |
| relics of feudalism | fees paid to nobles |
| Causes of Revolution | Economic crisis, unfair social structure, tax reform, debt, enlightenment ideals |
| Louis XVI | French revolution occured during his reign |
| Marie Antoinette | "madame deficit" |
| Estates General | French Parliament |
| National Assembly | emerged from 3rd estate, wrote constitution for France |
| Revolution | violent attempt to change structure of a government |
| Maximilian Robspierre | The Incorruptible, main leader of revolution |
| George Danton | Minister of Justice |
| Jean Paul Marat | The Friend of the people, leader of Jacobins,stabbed to death in bath tub |
| The People's Friend | newspaper of the revolution |
| Tennis Court Oath | June 20, 1789 |
| Bastile | Royal French Prison |
| French Independance Day | July 14, 1789 |
| Great Fear | Summer of 1789, panic spread and peasants rebeled against nobles |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | freedom of speech, press and religion |
| March on Versailles | 6000 women came to Palace because of high food prices |
| Liberty, Equality, & Fraternity | slogan of Revolution |
| Red, white, & blue ribbon | symbol of revolution |
| General Layfette | National Guard (Peoples Army) |
| Unicameral | one house legislature |
| conscription | draft, men between ages of 18 & 45 |
| French Republic | new French Government |
| Citizen or Citizens | how Parisians addressed each other |
| factions | dissenting political groups |
| Girondists | Right, conservatives supported the King |
| Moderates | political group in the middle |
| Jacobins | left, radicals, wanted to destroy opposition of revolution |
| San-culottes | without breeches |
| Charlotte Corday | stabbed Marat, "I killed one man to save 100,000" |
| Committe of Public Safety | 12 man dictatorship, led by Robespierre |
| Reign of Terror | period of time that enemies of the revolution were executed or arrested |
| Guillotine | French National Barber; The Razor |
| Robespierre beheaded | ends Reign of Terror |
| First Coalition | alliance of England, Spain, Austria and Prussia to stop France |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | French Hero; "Good Emperor" "Little Corporal" |
| Coup d' etate | stroke of state, seizure of power by force |
| Emperor Napoleon I | took crown from Pope Pius VII |
| Grand Empire | Napoleon's empire |
| Napoleonic Code | All men free and equal |
| Louvre | great museum of Paris |
| Battle of Ulm | Napoleon captured Vienna |
| Invasion of England | Napoleon's ultimate goal |
| Battle of Trafalgar | Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated French and Spanish fleets |
| Battle of Austerlitz | Napoleon smashed 3rd Coalition Army, frozen lake-30,000 killed |
| Continental System | blockade of British Isles |
| Duke of Wellington | drove French out of Spain |
| Invasion of Russia | began a 2 Front War |
| Scorched Earth | Russians burned crops and killed animals so Napoleon wouldn't have supplies |
| Retreat from Moscow | ? greatest military disaster of all time? |
| Battle of Lepzig | Battle of Nations, Grand Army was torn to shreds |
| Elba | island Napoleon was exiled to |
| Hundred Days | time of Napoleon's return to power and final defeat |
| Battle of Waterloo | final defeat of Napoleon |
| St. Helena | island whre Napoleon died |
