French Revolution

5. Instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
6. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
8. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason.Under his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
9. When someone is spending more money than they have.
10. A legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
12. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795.
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. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
15. The radical wing of representatives in the National Convention, named for their secret meeting place in the Jacobin Club, in an abandoned Paris monastery.

1. the middle class in a society.
2. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
3. He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774.
4. The body that replaced the Legislative Assembly following a successful election in 1792.
7. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
11. A government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.