The french revolution

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  1. 3. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
  2. 4. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
  3. 6. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
  4. 9. 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.
  5. 12. He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774. After his marriage to Marie Antoinette, they lived in the extravagant Palace of Versailles, and they ruled at a time when France did not have much money.
  6. 13. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason.
  7. 14. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
  8. 15. the middle class in a society.
  9. 16. when someone is spending more money than they have.
Down
  1. 1. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
  2. 2. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
  3. 5. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
  4. 7. it was a kind of prison that was stormed by the National Assembly to take guns from it.
  5. 8. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
  6. 10. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
  7. 11. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795.