French Revolution

1. a signed written agreement between two or more parties
4. General assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789
6. estate the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain
8. the social class between the lower and upper classes
9. an ornament usually worn on the hat
14. compulsory military service
15. 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
16. a native or naturalized member of a state
17. a member of the European royal family that ruled France
19. a dissenting clique

1. resistant to change
2. law determining the fundamental principles of a government
3. 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
5. Jacques Danton 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)
7. someone who leaves one country to settle in another
10. regime a political and social system that no longer governs
11. a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
12. d'etat a sudden and decisive change of government by force
13. a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
18. Revolution the revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789-1799