French Revolution.

2. – the middle class in a society.
4. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason.under his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
5. – a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
7. – a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
8. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
10. - A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. A period in July and August 1789 during which rural peasants revolted against their feudal landlords and wreaked havoc in the French countryside.
11. - The name given to the moderates in the National Convention. The Girondins controlled the legislative assembly until 1793, when, with the war going poorly and food shortages hurting French peasants, the Jacobins ousted them from power.
13. - Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
14. - He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774. After his marriage to Marie Antoinette, they lived in the extravagant Palace of Versailles, and they ruled at a time when France did not have much money.
15. - instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.

1. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
3. - The post–Reign of Terror period ushered in by the execution of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794 and the reassertion of moderate power over the French Revolution. The Thermidorian Reaction brought the Revolution’s focus back to the first stage of moderate changes designed to benefit the business classes of French society.
6. - Clergy, nobility and commoners.
9. - when someone is spending more money than they have.
12. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.