The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. someone who wants major change quickly
  2. 3. where the royal family was arrested and imprisoned
  3. 6. the feelings of the people who panicked because the revolution was causing too much destruction and nothing was changing.
  4. 8. a pledge for the middle class people to continue to meet until France had a new, final form of government.
  5. 10. a government in which all power rests with the citizens who vote to elect their leaders.
  6. 12. members of the First Estate
  7. 14. members of the Third Estate; eventually broke with the other Estates.
  8. 16. type of parliament in France which was met only when the king or queen needed them (royal demand). It also consisted of members from three estates or social levels.
  9. 18. a group
  10. 19. a paid soldier
  11. 22. certificates of money
  12. 23. an ornament worn on top of a hat.
Down
  1. 1. people who leave one country for another
  2. 4. a new form of government led by Count Mirabeau that the middle class formed to create a new constitution from France (Third Estate).
  3. 5. a new army formed by citizens to keep order in Paris.
  4. 7. a town where thousands of people gathered for important announcements regarding revolutionary acts.
  5. 9. the selfish wife of Louis XVI.
  6. 11. a document that sets out the major laws and principles of a government.
  7. 13. members of the Second Estate; demanded for democracy
  8. 15. __________ of the Rights of Man and the Citizen”
  9. 17. France was almost ____ during the reign of Louis XVI; when someone is unable to pay off a debt.
  10. 18. the royal prison and fortress that people attacked on July 14, 1789 in response to the king’s unfair decision to send troops to Paris.
  11. 20. the mansions and great estates of the rich.
  12. 21. all noble titles were considered ________ as the new system of the government was sept away.