| A | B |
| Compagnie du Mississippi | "vendre des actions" |
| Louis XIV | most powerful French king |
| Louis XV | became king when 5 years old |
| La Regence | period when a regent is in power |
| Le Regent | Duc d'Orleans |
| Hotels particuliers | huge beautiful homes in Paris |
| L'Encyclopedie | Diderot |
| Le roi | Représentant de Dieu / Serviteur du peuple |
| Madame de Pompadour | encouraged the encyclopedists |
| Louis XVI | never read L'Encyclopédie |
| Rousseau | philosopher, writer, supported democracy and education |
| Marie Antoinette | wife of Louis XVI |
| Ended the American Revolutionary war | Traité de Versailles |
| Cardinal | duped by a woman |