French Revoulution
Across
- 6. a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution
- 8. the people of France were divided into three large social classes, or estates.
- 9. Louis XVI’s wife
- 12. Leading figure of the French Revolution
- 13. King of France from 1774 to 1792
- 14. people who leave their native country for political reasons
- 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. 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. 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. the political and social system of France before the revolution of 1789
- 4. a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war
- 5. a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille
- 7. when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.
- 10. an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
- 11. member of a radical political organization during the French Revolution.