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Across
  1. 1. A political club in France which consisted of Revolutionaries from the 3rd estate.
  2. 6. justified French expansionism
  3. 7. Danton A famous leader of the sans-culottes and Paris Commune who sought revenge on those who aided the king and resisted popular will
  4. 8. a citizen had to be over 21, resident one year in his department and not a domestic servant
  5. 10. the name the Montagnards gave to their relatively more moderate opponents
  6. 12. Marat The leader of the Committee of Public Safety and a revolutionary
  7. 14. Court Oath A meeting of the National Assembly on June 20, 1789 to draft a constitution for France
  8. 16. of Public Safety A group of 12 men appointed by the National Convention in 1793 to rid France of both foreign and domestic threats
  9. 19. were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France
  10. 21. de Gouges a French playwright and political activist
  11. 23. Code A law code developed by Napoleon that preserved the gains of the French Revolution by recognizing the equality of all citizens before the law
  12. 24. of Wellington Commander of the English and Prussian armies who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815
Down
  1. 2. denoted an inhabitant of a walled town
  2. 3. d’etat an overthrow
  3. 4. Estate the clergy
  4. 5. of Terror a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.
  5. 6. Bonaparte A French army general who succeeded in taking over France through a coup d’état during the later years of the French Revolution
  6. 9. had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country
  7. 11. of feudalism obligations that survived from an earlier age and included the payment of fees for the use of village facilities, such as the flour mill, community oven, and winepress.
  8. 13. the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory
  9. 15. Estate the nobility
  10. 17. XVI King of France from 1774-1793
  11. 18. of the Rights of Man and Citizen A charter of basic liberties that was adopted by the National Assembly on August 26, 1789
  12. 20. Estate the townspeople
  13. 22. Robespierre He was a leader of the sans-culottes and Paris Commune during the French Revolution