FRENCH REVOLUTION

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Across
  1. 2. A very high social class that belongs to the privileged estates. They lived a great life and had all the privileges available, and didn’t even pay tax, despite owning a lot more than peasants.
  2. 4. A wave of panic that were riots to the French government to show the famine that the poor were sufferings.
  3. 6. After Louis XVI locked a building for the poor, they went to this place and revolted in order to to try and reform the constitution.
  4. 7. This happens when someone spends more money than the actual amount he/she can spend.
  5. 9. A tool made of wood and metal that is used to kill by using a sharp blade falling into someone’s head.
  6. 11. A social class that had money but didn’t have the rights of the nobles. Belongs to the third estate despite owning lots of property and constantly trading.
  7. 12. They belong to the Jacobin club, and they wanted to eliminate absolute powers from the king. They are violent third estate people. It’s one group of the Assembly.
Down
  1. 1. Assembly made to abolish the unfair feudal system imposed. Louis XVI formed it.
  2. 3. Deputy at the National Assembly of France. A member of the Jacobins.
  3. 5. A meeting between all estates to declare new rules to help the country’s bad situation. This hadn’t happened since 1614.
  4. 8. A list of grievances (complaints) that were debated at the Estates-General.
  5. 9. A group of people that are from the bourgeoisie and is the complete opposite of the Jacobins. Is the other group of the Assembly.
  6. 10. Governor of France that lived at the Palace of Versailles and made horrible political decisions.
  7. 13. Old system used in France that lasts from the fall of Constantinople all the way to the French Revolution.
  8. 14. A fortress in Paris that was guarded by Bernard de Launay. The poor go there to find gunpowder.