french revolution

1. a lawyer and political philosopher
6. a collection of laws and principles under which a government or other organization operates
7. relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants
10. a general term denoting various forms of compulsory military service
13. former royal residence built by King Louis XIV
14. a continent comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia
15. a form of government with a monarch at the head
16. a medieval fortress in Paris
17. the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality

2. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
3. the king of France during the early stages of the French Revolution
4. in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches
5. an internal, political uprising that attempts to establish a new political order, usually with the support of a significant proportion of the population
8. a governing body or class consisting of a hereditary nobility
9. townspeople who had acquired a certain level of comfort through capitalist production or trade
11. a person of noble rank or birth
12. relating to France or its people or language