Across
- 5. radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789
- 6. a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France
- 9. an Austrian princess and the wife of King Louis XVI.
- 11. the divisions of society in feudal time
- 14. , a period of the French Revolution that was conspicuous for mass executions of political suspects.
- 15. an upper-level secondary school preparing pupils for the baccalauréat (the degree required for university admission)
- 16. King of France
- 17. any of various historical French parliaments or houses of parliament
- 22. a naval engagement fought between British and French-led forces on October 21, 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars
- 24. an act of war whereby one party blocks entry to or departure from a defined part of an enemy's territory, most often its coasts
- 25. French civil code enacted by Napoleon in 1804
- 26. a series of meetings among the more powerful European nations between the Napoleonic War and World War I.
- 29. The legislature of France from October 1, 1791 to September 20, 1792 during the years of the French Revolution.
- 30. states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough military power to dominate all others
- 32. the vague consensus among the European monarchies favouring preservation of the territorial and political status quo
- 33. member of an irregular military force fighting small-scale, limited actions
- 34. ought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition
- 35. assembly in 1814–15 that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
Down
- 1. the belief that a rule, institution, or leader has the right to govern
- 2. the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce
- 3. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation
- 4. 1808 and 1814, the British Army fought a war in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France
- 7. any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France
- 8. eferendum is a type of voting, or of proposing laws.
- 10. a commitment to a national constitution and representative government
- 12. period between March 20, 1815, the date on which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile on Elba, and July 8, 1815, the date of the return of Louis XVIII to Paris
- 13. a loose organization of most of the European sovereigns
- 18. a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy.
- 19. The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins.
- 20. a label for the more militant supporters of that movement, especially in the years 1792 to 1795.
- 21. the institutions and society in France before 1789.
- 23. a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours
- 27. an agreement between the French state and the Catholic Church that reconciled the Church with the anti-religious policies established during the French Revolution.
- 28. an overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers
- 31. French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century.