The Ancien Regime key terms crossword
Across
- 4. Lettre de ________ - The King could have anyone arrested by issuing one of these!
- 5. The middle classes - members of the Third Estate who had gained some wealth.
- 6. Palace where the Kings of France lived.
- 9. Don ________ the 'free gift' - the clergy paid this instead of tax.
- 10. Capital city of France
- 11. If the King ruled unfairly and not in the interests of the people he would be accused of being a ?
- 13. Religion of France
- 14. A ________ system is where peasants work on land owned by a noble who they must pay rents to.
- 15. __________ Monarchy - the way France was ruled in the 18th century.
Down
- 1. Members of the Third Estate paid this tax to the church
- 2. A law court that served as a check on the King's power - they had to agree to register a law for it to be implemented.
- 3. Nobles of the Second Estate had many of these including status and tax exemptions
- 7. Enlightenment thinkers loved this idea
- 8. Word used to describe a society with clear rankings and status differences.
- 12. Name given to thinkers of the Enlightenment
- 13. _________ General - the most important of the King's ministers because he was in charge of finances.