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- 1. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
- 3. when someone is spending more money than they have.
- 5. a legislative body the gathering of a political or social group.
- 6. Urban workers and peasants, whose name—literally, “without culottes,” the knee-breeches that the privileged wore, signified their wish to distinguish themselves from the high classes.
- 9. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
- 10. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason.under his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
- 11. 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.
- 13. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
- 14. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
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- 2. - One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution
- 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.
- 5. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
- 7. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
- 8. the middle class in a society.
- 12. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795
