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| Declaration of the Rights of Man | A statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by the National Assembly 1789 |
| Legislative Assembly | After the National Assembly, this French congress was created. |
| emigres | people who leave their country for political reasons, like French nobles |
| sans-culottes | radicals in Paris who wanted more voice in government (wore long pants) |
| guillotine | machine for beheading people during the French Revolution |
| Maximilien Robespierre | leader who wanted a "republic of virtue" with no trace of past monarchy |
| Reign of Terror | Period of bloody executions under the dictatorship of Robespierre |
| Committee of Public Safety | Group that decided who should be executed as an enemy of the Republic |
| Jacobins | Radical club which gained power and wanted a Republic with no king |
| The Directory | A group of five moderates who ruled after the Reign of Terror |
| National Convention | Government after the Legislative Assembly that executed King Louis XVI |
