The Frech Revolution

3. Regime The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
4. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
7. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
10. his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
11. The period from 1793 to 1794 when Maximillen Robespierre ruled France nearly as dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.
13. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
14. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
15. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.

1. when someone is spending more money than they have.
2. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
5. The radical wing of representatives in the National Convention, named for their secret meeting place in the Jacobin Club, in an abandoned Paris monastery. Led by Maximilien Robespierre, the Jacobins called for democratic solutions to France’s problems and spoke for the urban poor and French peasantry.
6. The French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 7, 1789 4 to enact reforms in the name of the French people. The name given to the Third Estate after it separated from the Estates- General in 1789.
8. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
9. the middle class in a society.
12. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason.