The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. Device used for beheadings.
  2. 5. City-dwelling merchants, factory owners, and professionals in the third estate.
  3. 8. Pledge by Third Estate to create a constitution.
  4. 10. A French military leader who defended France during the French Revolution; eventually became emperor of France.
  5. 11. The third estate renamed themselves this; proclaimed to end absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative government.
  6. 13. Second Estate; the privileged and landowning citizens.
  7. 14. It was thought that nobles hired this group of people to terrorize the peasants during the Great Fear.
  8. 15. The most influential and radical political group during the French Revolution; it advocated for a republic, universal suffrage, and used extreme violence to protect the revolution.
  9. 17. French spy who kissed Marie Antoinette’s hand outside of Versailles.
  10. 18. Massive state prison/fortress.
  11. 22. The National Assembly stepped down and was replaced by the _____________.
  12. 23. Happened due to the social divide and inequalities in society; similar to the feudal system; A divide between social classes, and was a way of determining taxation.
  13. 24. A radical, socialist government that briefly ruled Paris after the Prussian War; had an important influence on the revolution.
  14. 25. Created by Joseph II and the Prussian king Fredrick Williams II; a joint statement by Austria and Prussia that threatened a military intervention in France if harm came to King Louis XVI.
  15. 26. France was divided into 83 ___________.
Down
  1. 1. The Queen of France; had no clue about politics; gave her husband bad advice; was very much disliked by the people.
  2. 3. Held on July 14th, this holiday is celebrated throughout France.
  3. 4. Consisted of Britain, Spain, Portugal and Austria; formed to prevent the revolution from spreading and to fight France.
  4. 6. Poor people with little hope, paid rent and fees to the nobles, and survived on bread.
  5. 7. Leader of the Committee of Public Safety; was in the Terror.
  6. 9. Became the new form of revolutionary government in France; abolished the monarchy;declared the first republic.
  7. 12. Someone who fled their own country in order to settle in another; King LouisXVI tried to do this.
  8. 16. First Estate; church officials.
  9. 19. Artisans and workers in the third estate.
  10. 20. Panic and peasant uprisings in the countryside.
  11. 21. Was introverted, shy, and indecisive; known for his lavish spending habits; King of France.