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- 3. Lawyer from northern France, he became the head of the Committee for Public Safety and was largely responsible for The Terror. Arrested and executed July (the month of Thermidor, according to the revolutionary calendar) 1794.
- 5. A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791.
- 6. The Sun King, was a monarch and ruled as King of France until his death.
- 7. an elected legislature in various countries.
- 9. (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty".
- 11. A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.
- 12. A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
- 13. An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
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- 1. The Political and Social system that existed in France before the French Revolution.
- 2. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
- 3. Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
- 4. "without breeches"; a radical group of shopkeepers and wage earners during the French Revolution who wanted a larger voice in government and an end to food shortages.
- 8. One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution.
- 10. member of a radical political club during the French Revolution.
- 14. person who flees his or her country for political reasons.