The French Revolution Vocabulary
Across
- 2. A pledge where the Third Estate faught for a new constitution
- 4. loyalty to one´s own country
- 6. rights that said "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights"
- 7. July 14, French national holiday
- 8. British admiral that defeated Napoleon´s naval
- 10. group that opposed the ideas of a monarchy
- 13. war in the Iberian peninsula that weakened the French empire
- 18. the Third EStates delegates
- 20. a radical political organization
- 23. government runs public schools
- 26. wife of Napoleon
- 27. Jacobin leader who gained power in 1793 and rules as a dictator
- 29. system of feudalism
- 31. different classes that divided the French society
- 32. assembly of the representatives of the three estates
- 33. small shopkeepers that wanted the revolution to bring even greater changes
- 34. a naval battle in which Napoleon´s forces were defeated by the British fleet
- 35. an agreement between the church and the state
- 37. wife of king Luis also known as "Madame Deficit"
- 39. group that upheld the as a limited monarchy
- 40. bands of Spanish peasant fighters
- 41. System of laws established for France by Napoleon
Down
- 1. period of Roberspierre ruling
- 3. system to make Europe more selfs-ufficient
- 5. palace where the royal family stayed
- 9. general that commanded the French armies in 1794
- 11. the vote of the people
- 12. object used for the sentence of death where they cutted someone´s head
- 14. Philosophy that refered to the church as part of the state
- 15. religious groups that had access to high offices and exemptions from taxes
- 16. newspaper printed during the Revolution
- 17. Legacy left by Vienna that influenced the next 100 years
- 19. weak king who came to the French throne in 1774
- 21. a forcible closing of ports
- 22. Strategy where they burned fields as to leave nothing for the enemy to eat.
- 24. placed where French people first exiled Napoleon
- 25. time of a huge wave of fear in France
- 28. assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791
- 30. group that waanted a change in the government
- 36. the hereditary rights of a monarch to rule
- 38. nobles and others who fled France