French Revolution

7. Nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
8. Lists of grievances written by the people. They asked for only moderate changes.
11. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
12. 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. The mob mentality of the sans-culottes constituted the most radical element of the Revolution. A group made up of Parisian wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end of food shortages.

1. - Clergy, nobility and commoners.
2. XVI 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.
3. the middle class in a society.
4. The name given to the moderates in the NationalConvention. The Girondins controlled the legislative assembly until 1793, when, with the war going poorly and food shortages hurting French peasants, the Jacobins ousted them from power.
5. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
6. Used as a state prison by King Louis XVI. The revolutionaries stormed this prison in Paris on July 14th 1789.
9. He executed King Louis XVI because he was convicted of treason. Under his advice, the committee of public safety came to control France.
10. Instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
13. a legislative body; the gathering of a political or social group.