The French Revolution!

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Across
  1. 4. a paid soldier
  2. 6. members of the Second Estate; demanded for democracy
  3. 8. a document that sets out the major laws and principles of a government.
  4. 10. the selfish wife of Louis XVI.
  5. 12. members of the First Estate
  6. 15. the mansions and great estates of the rich.
  7. 16. __________ of the Rights of Man and the Citizen”
  8. 18. all noble titles were considered ________ as the new system of the government was sept away.
  9. 19. members of the Third Estate; eventually broke with the other Estates.
  10. 20. a new form of government led by Count Mirabeau that the middle class formed to create a new constitution from France (Third Estate).
  11. 22. an ornament worn on top of a hat.
  12. 24. the feelings of the people who panicked because the revolution was causing too much destruction and nothing was changing.
Down
  1. 1. certificates of money
  2. 2. people who leave one country for another
  3. 3. a group
  4. 5. a government in which all power rests with the citizens who vote to elect their leaders.
  5. 7. a pledge for the middle class people to continue to meet until France had a new, final form of government.
  6. 9. someone who wants major change quickly
  7. 11. a town where thousands of people gathered for important announcements regarding revolutionary acts.
  8. 13. the royal prison and fortress that people attacked on July 14, 1789 in response to the king’s unfair decision to send troops to Paris.
  9. 14. a new army formed by citizens to keep order in Paris.
  10. 17. type of parliament in France which was met only when the king or queen needed them (royal demand). It also consisted of members from three estates or social levels.
  11. 21. where the royal family was arrested and imprisoned
  12. 23. France was almost ____ during the reign of Louis XVI; when someone is unable to pay off a debt.