French Revoulution

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Across
  1. 6. a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution
  2. 8. the people of France were divided into three large social classes, or estates.
  3. 9. Louis XVI’s wife
  4. 12. Leading figure of the French Revolution
  5. 13. King of France from 1774 to 1792
  6. 14. people who leave their native country for political reasons
  7. 15. a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
Down
  1. 1. a pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.
  2. 2. a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages.
  3. 3. the political and social system of France before the revolution of 1789
  4. 4. a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war
  5. 5. a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille
  6. 7. when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.
  7. 10. an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
  8. 11. member of a radical political organization during the French Revolution.