French Revolution

3. An instrument used for punishment, which executes the person by cutting the person’s head off.
8. A form of government where a small group of elites rule.
10. Nobles who tried to leave the country France because they were scared
12. The king of France
14. A revolutionary assembly held by the third estate.

1. A situation in which a government spends more money than it takes in.
2. A period of panic, in which citizens suspected of 'counter-revolutionary' activity were arrested, tried, and often executed
4. A French political leader of the eighteenth century.
5. A meeting held by the King Louis XVI, where the three estates meet: clergy, nobility, and peasants.
6. The National Assembly swore not to stop meeting until France had a constitution
7. The lists of grievances drawn by each one of the three estates.
9. Created by the National Convention to defend the nation against enemies.
11. The period during French Revolution when 15000 people were executed.
13. The fourth phase of French Revolution, a committee that governed France.
15. A prison in France, where many political and other offenders were held and tortured there until the time of the French Revolution.