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  1. 1. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
  2. 3. when someone is spending more money than they have.
  3. 5. a legislative body the gathering of a political or social group.
  4. 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.
  5. 9. Clergy, nobility and commoners.
  6. 10. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason.under his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
  7. 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.
  8. 13. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries who stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
  9. 14. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
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  1. 2. - One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution
  2. 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.
  3. 5. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
  4. 7. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
  5. 8. the middle class in a society.
  6. 12. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795