French Revolution Vocabulary Crossword

2. government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation.
4. king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his wife (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined.
9. a groundbreaking political body formed at the outset of the French Revolution.
11. meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons.
12. made up of individuals who held titles of nobility, such as dukes, marquesses, counts, viscounts, and barons.
13. the political and social system in France before the Revolution of 1789
14. any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789.
15. social class oriented to economic materialism and hedonism, and to upholding the political and economic interests of the capitalist ruling-class.

1. a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution.
3. a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
5. climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.
6. key moment that set off the French Revolution. On June 20, 1789
7. a wave of panic that swept the French countryside in late July and early August 1789.
8. the lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three Estates in France, between January and April 1789, the year in which the French Revolution began.
10. The legislature of France from October 1, 1791, to September 20, 1792, during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and the National Convention.