French Revolution

6. A hired soldier, often Swiss, brought in by the King to keep the peace, but really just caused the great fear.
8. The nobility, who lived the 'noble' life and paid few taxes.
9. Document declaring that all Frenchmen were born free and equal, a key text of the revolution.
11. The vast majority of the population, often rural, who were tired of paying all the taxes
14. Group, who sat on the right and wanted the King to keep most of his power.
15. General who took power after the revolution and crowned himself Emperor.
16. The French middle class, often lawyers or bankers, who were rich but lacked noble titles.
18. Got her head chopped.
19. Wave of peasant riots and panic across the French countryside in the summer of 1789.
20. Group, which sat on the left and wanted to abolish the monarchy completely.
22. Formed by the rebelling Third Estate when they broke away from the Estates general.
23. July 14, 1789, was a symbolic prison break that became France's national holiday.
24. The government that succeeded the National Assembly but was only in power for about a year.

1. The radical city government of the capital during the revolutionary period.
2. Clergy, who paid few taxes and had all the faith in France.
3. Thousands of angry mothers who walked miles to demand bread from the King and Queen.
4. Statement by Austria and Prussia threatening to intervene if the French royal family was harmed.
5. A vow taken by the Third Estate to keep meeting until a new constitution was written.
7. The meeting of all three social classes that Louis XVI called to solve the debt concerns.
10. The 97% of France who carried the entire tax burden
12. The National Razor of France est. 1792
13. Workers who wore long trousers instead of the knee breeches preferred by the aristocracy.
17. The reluctant monarch who lost his head over the whole revolution.
21. Nobles who fled France during the Revolution, Louis would be one if he hadn't been caught.