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6. XVI: The King of France during the beginning of the French Revolution; he was weak, indecisive, and eventually executed by guillotine in 1793.
8. Assembly: A governing body formed by the Third Estate in June 1789, representing the people rather than the king.
10. The social class system in France before the revolution, divided into three parts: The Clergy (1st), Nobility (2nd), and Commoners (3rd).
11. Court Oath: A pledge taken by the National Assembly to not stop meeting until they had written a new constitution for France.
13. Bonaparte: A military leader who rose to power during the revolution and eventually crowned himself Emperor of France.
14. Days: The brief period in 1815 between Napoleon’s escape from exile on Elba and his final defeat at Waterloo.
16. The final, decisive defeat of Napoleon in 1815 by British and Prussian forces.

1. The wealthy, educated middle class (doctors, lawyers, merchants) who were part of the Third Estate but lacked political power.
2. Robespierre: Radical Jacobin leader who led the Committee of Public Safety and spearheaded the Reign of Terror.
3. Code: A unified legal system established by Napoleon in 1804 that guaranteed equality before the law, but limited individual freedoms.
4. A machine designed for fast, "humane" executions by beheading, used extensively during the Reign of Terror.
5. An assembly representing all three estates that was called by Louis XVI in 1789 to solve a financial crisis.
7. of Terror: A violent period (1793–1794) where suspected enemies of the revolution were executed in large numbers.
9. Fear: A period of panic and riots by peasants in the countryside who feared that nobles were trying to starve them.
12. Antoinette: The Queen of France (wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular due to1 her extravagant spending and perceived indifference to the poor.
15. of the Bastille: July 14, 1789: Parisians seized the Bastille prison, a symbol of royal tyranny, marking the start of the violent revolution.