Across
- 2. Led by Robespierre, the French National Convention's radical faction, which seized legislative power in 1793.
- 4. French civil code promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all make citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property.
- 6. The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else.
- 9. Period of time (1793-1794) during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed.
- 10. A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
- 11. A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated racial republicans.
- 12. The fear of noble reprisals against peasant uprisings that seized the French countryside and led to further revolt.
- 13. The second phase of the French Revolution, during which the fall of the French monarchy introduced a rapid radicalization of politics.
- 14. The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy.
Down
- 1. The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of knee breeches of the aristocracy and middle class.
- 3. A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military.
- 5. A legislative body in pre-Revolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes or estates.
- 7. A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
- 8. The empire over which Napoleon and his allies ruled, encompassing virtually all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia.