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  1. 4. a period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions
  2. 5. a radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789.
  3. 9. queen of France
  4. 10. France of the pre-Revolution monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,”
  5. 13. a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (
  6. 14. the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime.
  7. 15. any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789.
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  1. 1. voting "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established".
  2. 2. the social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the latter part of the 18th century under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties.
  3. 3. A revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate
  4. 6. the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
  5. 7. a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791. Declaration of the Rights of Man.
  6. 8. Any of the 3 social classes that was in France during the Rule of Louis
  7. 11. a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides
  8. 12. n the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.