French Revolution Crossword

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  1. 2. A group of people who left France during the revolutionary period.
  2. 4. A privileged social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition.
  3. 5. It was the governing body of France. It replaced the National Constituent Assembly.
  4. 8. was a middle social class that gained power during the Ancien Regime.
  5. 10. It was a government system before of the French Revolution in 1789. During the Enlightenment, it started to suffer some transformations until it eventually disappeared.
  6. 12. Was an assembly comprising the clergy of the French nobles and the middle class.
  7. 13. A machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
  8. 14. The first revolutionary government of the French Revolution.
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  1. 1. Their function was to defend the nation against foreign and domestic enemies, as well as to oversee the new functions of the executive government.
  2. 3. People who formed part of a famous new political party, found in Paris, in the street Saint-Honoré. It was formed by people of the 3rd Estate.
  3. 6. A revolt the ended with the fall of Robespierre and the collapse of the Reign of Terror in France.
  4. 7. He was a king of France, who got married with Marie Antoinette. He ruled France also during the French Revolution. He was very selfish and spent a lot of money with his wife and only thought about the higher estates (1st and 2nd).
  5. 8. A Royal prison which was taken during the French Revolution by the people of the Third Estate.
  6. 9. He was a radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution.
  7. 11. A promise that all the people of the Third Estate made promising that they would not stop revolting until their demands would be met.