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| legislative assembly | a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 |
| emigre | person who leaves his native country for political reasons, like nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution |
| sans culotte | Working-class man or woman who made the French Revolution more radical ,called such because he or she wore long trousers instead of the fancy knee breeches that the upper class wore . |
| Jacobin | Working-class man or woman who made the French Revolution more radical ,called such because he or she wore long trousers instead of the fancy knee breeches that the upper class wore . |
| Guilottine | Working-class man or woman who made the French Revolution more radical ,called such because he or she wore long trousers instead of the fancy knee breeches that the upper class wore . |
| Maximilien Robespierre | -One of the leaders of the French Revolution. -1758-1794 -Leader of the reign of terror which ended in him being executed by the guillotine. |
| Reign of Terror | name given to the most violent phase of the French Revolution. Under the authority of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety, thousands of people were executed. Special Revolutionary Tribunals were appointed to investigate suspected enemies of the revolution. 9 out of 10 people tried under the tribunals were found guilty and executed. Estimates of victims of the Reign of Terror are as high as 50,000 |
| Rights of Man | French declaration of independence |
| Marat | revolutionary writer, stabbed to death in bathtub |
| State-controlled Church | replaced the Catholic church |
