Across
- 2. someone who wants major change quickly
- 3. where the royal family was arrested and imprisoned
- 6. the feelings of the people who panicked because the revolution was causing too much destruction and nothing was changing.
- 8. a pledge for the middle class people to continue to meet until France had a new, final form of government.
- 10. a government in which all power rests with the citizens who vote to elect their leaders.
- 12. members of the First Estate
- 14. members of the Third Estate; eventually broke with the other Estates.
- 16. type of parliament in France which was met only when the king or queen needed them (royal demand). It also consisted of members from three estates or social levels.
- 18. a group
- 19. a paid soldier
- 22. certificates of money
- 23. an ornament worn on top of a hat.
Down
- 1. people who leave one country for another
- 4. a new form of government led by Count Mirabeau that the middle class formed to create a new constitution from France (Third Estate).
- 5. a new army formed by citizens to keep order in Paris.
- 7. a town where thousands of people gathered for important announcements regarding revolutionary acts.
- 9. the selfish wife of Louis XVI.
- 11. a document that sets out the major laws and principles of a government.
- 13. members of the Second Estate; demanded for democracy
- 15. __________ of the Rights of Man and the Citizen”
- 17. France was almost ____ during the reign of Louis XVI; when someone is unable to pay off a debt.
- 18. the royal prison and fortress that people attacked on July 14, 1789 in response to the king’s unfair decision to send troops to Paris.
- 20. the mansions and great estates of the rich.
- 21. all noble titles were considered ________ as the new system of the government was sept away.