French Revolution Vocabulary

3. people who emigrated from France.
5. a period of time when a series of massacres and public executions took place.
9. they supported the monarchy.
11. the middle class.
14. a group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose.
15. a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate.
17. lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three estates in France.
18. an oath vowing “not to separate and to reassemble wherever require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established”.
19. members of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement.
20. members of a loosely knit political faction.
21. the period between the ousting of Maximilian Robespierre and the inauguration of the French Directory.

1. under the Old Regime, one of the three social classes.
2. a form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
4. political and social system established in the kingdom of France until 1789.
6. revolutionaries who plotted the downfall of the king and the rise of the French Republic.
7. the governing five member committee.
8. the exercise of absolute power.
10. the first French government organized as a republic abandoning the monarchy altogether.
12. the provisional government in France during the Reign of Terror.
13. those who wanted changes but not as eagerly as the radicals.
16. the common people of the lower classes.