French revolution

6. a European cultural and philosophical movement that grew out of new methods of inquiry and new theories of personal freedom.
7. dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.
9. supreme power or authority.
14. a member of a European class of persons tilling the soil as small landowners or as laborers.
15. a combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries.
17. compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
18. ruled France since the mid-1600s and its rule was marked with wars—including the two wars of Austrian succession and the Seven Years War.
19. a medieval fortress in Paris, France that was used as a prison in the 18th century.
20. the system of government and society in France before the French Revolution of 1789.

1. A group of soldiers who will work for any country or employer that will pay them.
2. a major historic event, ushering in the profound political and social transformation of Europe.
3. a governing body or class consisting of a hereditary nobility.
4. a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.
5. townspeople who had acquired a certain level of comfort through capitalist production or trade.
8. a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
10. a radical change in the established order, usually the established government and social institutions.
11. form of government in which the supreme powers of the state are exercised, or ceremoniously held, by a king, queen, emperor, or other regal potentate.
12. The palace King Louis XIV stayed at and lived in.
13. an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
16. a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.