Across
- 2. The most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.
- 5. A French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
- 6. A period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
- 7. The last queen of France before the French Revolution.
- 8. A legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects (clergy, nobility, commoners).
- 9. An agreement by representatives of the Third Estate to not separate until they had given France a constitution.
- 10. An apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
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- 1. The medieval fortress on the east side of Paris that became, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a French state prison and a place of detention for important persons charged with various offenses.
- 3. A radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution.
- 4. The educated middle class in the Third Estate.
