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| National Assembly | Government established by the Third Estate in the summer of 1789 |
| Legislative Assembly | Unicameral legislature created by the Constitution of 1791 |
| National Convention | Government that abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic |
| Directory | Name given to government created by Constitution of 1795 |
| Louis XVI | King of France when the revolution began |
| Abbe Sieyes | Member of First Estate who wrote the pamphlet, "What is the Third Estate?" |
| July 14, 1789 | Date the Bastille fell |
| Great Fear | Peasant uprising sparked by fears that the nobles had hired brigands to terrorize the peasants |
| Bread March of the Women | Poor women of Paris who marched to Versailles and forced Louis to move to Paris |
| Declaration of the Rights of Men | Passed by National Assembly and modeled after the American Bill of Rights |
| Civil Constitution of the Clergy | Act that nationalized the church |
| Declaration of Pillnitz | Document issued by Austria and Prussia that called for the restoration of the Louis as a absolute ruler |
| Brunswick Manifesto | A warning by the Prussian commander that if the king and his family was harmed Paris would be destroyed |
| September Massacres | Following the fall of the Legislative Assembly; resulted in death of 1000's |
| levee en masse | National draft instituted by National Convention; called upon all citizens of France to take up a job to help defeat foreign enemies |
| Committee of Public Safety | Instituted the Reign of Terror |
| Reign of Terror | Radical revolutionary period in which 1000's died |
| Maxilien Robespierre | Head of the Committee of Public Safety |
| Thermidorian Reaction | Period after the execution of Robespierre |
| Girondins | Internationalists who dominated the Legislative Assembly |
| Mountain/Montagnards | Most radical members of the Jacobin club that dominated the National Convention |
| san-culottes | urban working class |
| Constitution of 1791 | Adopted by National Assembly; created a unicameral legislature |
| Constitution of 1795 | Adopted by National Convention; created a bicameral legislature |
| Republic of Virtue | Attempt by Robespierre to create a dechristianized republic |
| 14 Frumaire 1793 | An attempt to reduce the excesses of the Reign of Terror |
| Law of Suspects | Law which made anyone fair game for the death during the Terror |
| Press Law | Provided the death penalty to anyone who wrote negatively of the revolution |
| Law of Dangerous Priests | Legalized the death penalty for refractory priests |
| Jacques Necker | French director of finances who argued if American war expenses were removed the financial state wasn't so bad |
| Charles Alexandre de Calonne | French finance minister who suggested a new land tax that would require all landowners to pay regardless of social status |
| Assembly of Notables | group of upper ranks and church that Calonne asked to support new land tax; they refuse and demanded great say in gov't |
| Charles Lomenis de Brienne | Calonne's successor who had opposed the land tax, but late sought to impose the tax |
| cahiers de doleances | "lists of grievances"; petitions for reforms submitted to the French Crown in 1789 |
| Tennis Court Oath | vow taken by member of the National Assembly to remain together until they had produced a constitution |
| August 4, 1789 | night when National Assembly ended all feudal rights |
| Declaration of Rights of Man | adopted on August 27,1789; statement of broad political principles |
| Jacques Louis David | foremost French painter of late 18th and early 19th century |
| Olympe de Gouges | author of Declaration of the Rights of Woman |
| Chapelier Law | outlawed workers' association |
| assignats | government bonds to be guaranteed by money generated by sale of church property |
| emigres | French aristocrats who fled France during the revolution |
| Jacobins | most famous and best organized of revolutionary political clubs |
| Flight to Varennes | Louis XVI's attempt to escape revolutionary France; exposed the duplicity of the king |
| Edmund Burke | British author of "Reflections on the Revolution in France; became the handbook of European conservatives |
| Society of Revolutionary Republican Women | founded by Pauline Leon and Claire Lacombe; purpose was to fight the internal enemies of the revolution |
| Law of 22 Prairial | This permitted the revolutionary tribunal to convict suspects without hearing substantial evidence |
| The Directory | government created by the Constitution of 1795 |
| 13 Vendemiaire | in 1795, a Royalists' uprising against the National Convention; suppressed by Napoleon |
| Treaty of Basel | peace treaty negotiated by Convention which end war with Prussia and Spain |
| Gracchus Babeur | leader of the Conspiracy of Equals |
| Conspiracy of Equals | radical group that opposed the Directory and called for more democracy & more equality of property |
| refractory clergy | clergy who refused to accept the Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
