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- 5. members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, voting "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established"
- 7. an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.
- 8. was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715.
- 9. a period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions,
- 10. a French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution
- 12. a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king
- 13. an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
- 15. Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
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- 1. a label for the more militant supporters of that movement, especially in the years 1792 to 1795.
- 2. a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects.
- 3. the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages until the French Revolution of 1789,
- 4. a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791.
- 6. The Society of the Friends of the Constitution, renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality after 1792 and commonly known as the Jacobin Club or simply the Jacobins, was the most influential political club during the French Revolution of 1789.
- 11. a person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons.
- 14. an elected legislature in various countries.