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