The French Revolution
Across
- 2. The right to vote
- 4. The system of laws by which a nation is governed
- 5. Doctor G's mostly painless beheading machine
- 10. Political club
- 11. Frenchmen who fled the revolution and moved abroad
- 12. Spending more money than taking in
- 15. Strong feeling of pride and loyalty to one's nation
- 17. Medieval fortress in Paris used as a prison
- 18. Period from September 1793 to July 1794 when over 17,000 people were executed
- 19. Austrian-born wife of Louis XVI
- 20. Three political classes in France
Down
- 1. French general who led the National Guard
- 3. French for middle class (it literally means "town dweller")
- 6. Last king of France during the Revolution
- 7. French for "old order"
- 8. Forcing men to serve in the military
- 9. National assembly's promise not to stop meeting until there was a new constitution
- 13. Widespread scarcity of food
- 14. Working-class revolutionaries
- 16. Brilliant war hero who became ruler of France