The French Revolution

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  1. 7. a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
  2. 8. Revolution- the revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789
  3. 11. a person who takes a position in the political center
  4. 14. Jacques Danton- French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)
  5. 16. XIV- king of France from 1643 to 1715
  6. 18. a privileged class holding hereditary titles
  7. 19. not concerned with or devoted to religion
  8. 20. autocracy governed by a ruler who usually inherits authority
  9. 21. a vote determining public opinion on a question
  10. 22. a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
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  1. 1. the social class between the lower and upper classes
  2. 2. a person who has revolutionary ideas or opinions
  3. 3. form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
  4. 4. a palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles
  5. 5. a crime that undermines the offender's government
  6. 6. instrument of execution used for beheading people
  7. 9. XVI- king of France from 1774 to 1792
  8. 10. of terror- any period of brutal suppression thought to resemble the Reign of Terror in France
  9. 12. a member of the European royal family that ruled France
  10. 13. imposition of charges against a citizen's person or property
  11. 15. a legal right to vote
  12. 17. regime- a political and social system that no longer governs