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The French Revolution

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the members of the First Estatethe clergy
the 3 "estates" in France before the revolutionthe clergy, the nobility and the peasants
the members of the second estatethe nobility
the members of the third estatecommoners, peasants and middle class
the French monarchs in 1789Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette
about the peasants- "Let them eat cake"reportedly what Marie Antoinette said when told there was a shortage of bread
before the Revolution, the seat of French governmentthe palace of Versailles
3 influential philosophers who advacated the rights of normal citizensVoltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau
the Estates General in 1789was called together by the king at Versailles
July 14, French Independence Day, was the storming of....the Bastille
the Third estate declared itself to bea National Assembly
the revolutionary city government of Paristhe Commune
the head of the French National Guardde la Fayette
the law of the National Assembly which declared the liberty of individualsthe Declaration of the Rights of Man
place where the king and queen were quartered in Paris to be watchedthe Tuileries
the famous committee headed by Robespierrethe Committee of Public Safety
the period where terror was "the order of the day"The Reign of Terror
how people were addressed during the revolution"citizen"
Robespierre associated this with terrorvirtue
1794-5The Great Terror
"religion" that Robespierre tried to installCult of the Supreme Being
what Marie Antoinette was accused ofincest, spending too much money, high treason
US event that helped to bankrupt Francethe American Revolution
result of flour costs risingbread shortage
"The Incorruptible"Robespierre
"The Revolution is about to eat its own"Those who kill others are themselves killed by others
the Tennis Court Oathdefiance of the king by the Estates General
the tricolorthe French flag
newspaper founded by Jean-Paul MaratL'ami du peuple
"the professional malcontent"Jean-Paul Marat
the French motto"liberté, équalité, fraternité"
inventor of the guillotineDr. Joseph Guillotin
why a doctor invented a guillotineit was painless and "humane"
the National Razorthe guillotine
country that France declared war on in 1792Austria
"sans-culottes"non-aristocrats
the Minister of JusticeDanton
result of Marat urging mobs to kill political prisonersthe September Massacre
who killed Marat and whereCharlotte Cordé in a bathtub
painter of Marat's deathDavid


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