The French Revolution
Across
- 1. Austrian statesman
- 3. noble or other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system
- 6. assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
- 7. revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France’s past monarchy and nobility
- 12. a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon
- 14. a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to aprove or reject a proposal
- 16. Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe
- 17. a sudden seizure of political power in a nation
- 18. weak king who came to French throne in 1774
- 21. government-run public school in France
- 22. the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
- 23. assembly of representatives from all three estate
- 24. a conflict the lasted from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon's French troops out of Spain
- 29. an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet
- 32. French general who became emperor of France
- 33. member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country
- 34. series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century
- 35. formal agreement, especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs
Down
- 2. French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
- 4. brief period during 1825 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the french king and becoming emperor
- 5. village in Belgium where European forces defeated Napoleon in 1825
- 8. unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
- 9. a series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish peace after defeating Napoleon
- 10. the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land
- 11. period of Robespierre’s rule
- 13. system of feudalism
- 15. machine for beheading people
- 19. political situation in which no one in the nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
- 20. radical group of Parisian wage-earners
- 25. social class of people
- 26. wave of panic
- 27. member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization
- 28. promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution
- 30. the use of troops and ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
- 31. league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna