French Revolution
Across
- 2. military leader who seized power in France coup d’état sudden takeover of a government.
- 8. weak king who came to French throne in 1774
- 10. Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations.
- 11. government-run public school.
- 13. war that Napoleon fought in Spain
- 17. French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
- 21. league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia
- 22. complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices.
- 24. The middle and upper classes of French society
- 25. of power condition in which no one country becomes a threat to another legitimacy bringing back to power the kings that Napoleon had driven out
- 29. unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
- 31. defeat of Napoleon’s forces at sea.
- 33. other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system.
- 34. A medieval representative institution in France that had not met for 175 years before King Louis XVI reconvened it on May 5, 1789,
- 35. policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat
- 36. meetings in Vienna for the purpose of restoring order to europe
- 37. member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization.
Down
- 1. radical group of Parisian wage-earners.
- 3. of panicLegislative Assembly assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
- 4. A large armory and state prison in the center of Paris
- 5. series of alliances to help prevent revolution.
- 6. revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility.
- 7. forced closing of ports
- 9. battle in Belgium that was Napoleon’s final defeat
- 12. A set of thirteen provincial judicial boards
- 14. machine for beheading people.
- 15. Napoleon’s last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo
- 16. key leader at the Congress of Vienna
- 18. promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
- 19. system of feudalismestate social class of people
- 20. The form of government, common to most European countries at the time of the French Revolution 1792
- 23. Spanish peasant fighter
- 26. The palace in Paris in which King Louis XVI and his family were placed under house arrest
- 27. of representatives from all three estates
- 28. agreement.
- 30. period of Robespierre’s rule.
- 32. vote by the people.