French revolution

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Across
  1. 2. a person who holds moderate views, especially in politics
  2. 5. the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
  3. 6. a particular class or category of people in society
  4. 8. a regular social gathering of eminent people at the house of a woman prominent in high society
  5. 10. a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.
  6. 11. King of France from 1774 - 1792.
  7. 12. subject to a tax of one tenth of income or produce.
  8. 14. a book of directions for thre conduct of Christian worship, especially in Presbyterian and Roman Catholic Churches.
  9. 16. a monarchy that is not limited or restrained by laws or a constitution
  10. 18. a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
  11. 20. Last queen of France before the French Revolution.
Down
  1. 1. the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son.
  2. 3. a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
  3. 4. compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
  4. 7. a 19th-century man’s boot reaching above the knee in front and with a piece cut out behind, originally worn by cavalrymen
  5. 9. a person who is averse to change and hold traditional values.
  6. 13. the body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church.
  7. 15. a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine.
  8. 17. a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform; a member of a political party or part of a party pursuing such aims.
  9. 19. a person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons.