Sara Sheredy- The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. social standing or rank especially of a high order
  2. 5. the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula
  3. 9. Political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution
  4. 10. the bicameral legislature in 28 states of the US.
  5. 12. French military general and statesman
  6. 14. the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government
  7. 18. a group made up of representatives from the three classes, or estates, of French society
  8. 20. purging France of its past
  9. 21. an extreme radical republican in France at the time of the Revolution
  10. 22. the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
  11. 24. public school for boys
  12. 25. the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place
  13. 26. right and acceptance of an authority
  14. 27. a member of the most radical club founded during the French Revolution
  15. 30. a general agreement among the great powers of 19th-century Europe
  16. 32. a coalition created in 1815 by the monarchist great powers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia to prevent revolutionary influences in Europe
  17. 33. an agreement
  18. 34. a direct vote by eligible voters to decide an important public question
Down
  1. 1. fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher
  2. 2. someone who leaves one country to settle in another
  3. 3. promise to write a constitution
  4. 4. the military tactic of destroying everything that enables the enemy to wage war, including crops, livestock, buildings, and infrastructure
  5. 6. the written laws developed by Napoleon to modernize and unify France
  6. 7. attempt to make Europe self-sufficiant
  7. 8. aims to preservation of safety of the nationalities of the world.
  8. 11. a radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789
  9. 13. an Austrian princess and the wife of King Louis XVI
  10. 15. the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris
  11. 16. an assembly composed of the representatives of a nation and usually constituting a legislative body or a constituent assembly.
  12. 17. a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy”
  13. 19. a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain
  14. 23. the emperor created Metternich a hereditary prince
  15. 28. a meeting of European nations that set out a strategy to maintain peace and stability throughout the continent
  16. 29. civillian soldiers
  17. 31. a machine for cutting off a person's head