French Revolution

2. resistant to change
3. regime a political and social system that no longer governs
6. d'etat a sudden and decisive change of government by force
9. General assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789
10. compulsory military service
11. someone who leaves one country to settle in another
13. a dissenting clique
14. a member of the European royal family that ruled France
16. law determining the fundamental principles of a government
18. the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain
19. a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

1. a native or naturalized member of a state
4. a signed written agreement between two or more parties
5. an ornament usually worn on the hat
7. the revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789-1799
8. a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
12. a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
14. a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
15. the social class between the lower and upper classes
17. French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)