French Revolution

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  1. 2. The most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.
  2. 5. A French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
  3. 6. A period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
  4. 7. The last queen of France before the French Revolution.
  5. 8. A legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects (clergy, nobility, commoners).
  6. 9. An agreement by representatives of the Third Estate to not separate until they had given France a constitution.
  7. 10. An apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
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  1. 1. The medieval fortress on the east side of Paris that became, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a French state prison and a place of detention for important persons charged with various offenses.
  2. 3. A radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution.
  3. 4. The educated middle class in the Third Estate.