French Revolution

3. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
7. when someone is spending more money than they have.
9. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason.
10. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
12. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
13. A June 20, 1789, oath sworn by members of the Third Estate who had just formed the National Assembly and were locked out of the meeting of the Estates-General.
14. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
15. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.

1. He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774. After his marriage to Marie Antoinette, they lived in the extravagant Palace of Versailles
2. The period from 1793 to 1794 when Maximillen Robespierre ruled France nearly as dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.
4. The French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 7, 1789 4 to enact reforms in the name of the French people. The name given to the Third Estate after it separated from the Estates- General in 1789.
5. the middle class in a society.
6. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
8. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795. The Directory was appointed by the legislative assembly.
11. Clergy, nobility and commoners.