Across
- 4. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
- 6. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
- 9. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason
- 10. 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. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789
- 12. The body that replaced the Legislative Assembly following a successful election in 1792. As one of its first actions
- 13. The radical wing of representatives in the National Convention, named for their secret meeting place in the Jacobin Club, in an abandoned Paris monastery.
- 15. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.
Down
- 1. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
- 2. when someone is spending more money than they have.
- 3. He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774. After his marriage to Marie Antoinette, they lived in the extravagant Palace of Versailles, and they ruled at a time when France did not have much money.
- 5. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
- 7. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
- 8. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
- 14. the middle class in a society.
