French Revolution

1. The name given to the moderates in the NationalConvention. 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.
4. XVI 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.
6. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
9. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
10. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
13. Urban workers and peasants, whose name—literally, “without culottes,” the knee-breeches that the privileged wore, signified their wish to distinguish themselves from the high classes. The mob mentality of the sans-culottes constituted the most radical element of the Revolution. A group made up of Parisian wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end of food shortages.
14. - Clergy, nobility and commoners.

2. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason. Under his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
3. Court Oath - A June 20, 1789, oath sworn by members of the Third Estate who had just formed the National Assembly and were locked out of the meeting of the Estates-General. Meeting at a nearby tennis court, these members of the Third Estate pledged to remain together until they had drafted and passed a new constitution. A pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.
5. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
6. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
7. Instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
8. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
11. - 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.
12. the middle class in a society.