Across
- 1. the right to vote, esp. in a political election
- 3. a small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.
- 7. (of a legislative body) having a single legislative chamber.
- 8. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- 9. an exercise book or notebook.
- 10. A surname ascribed to Louis XVI during the French Revolution, derived from the Capetian royal house of the Middle Ages.
- 14. 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.
- 15. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
- 17. income tax of the ancien régime in France
- 22. stood up to the powerful trade guilds and introduced free trade and competition.
- 23. districts responsible for electing deputies to attend the Estates-General.
- 24. a form of unpaid, forced labor, that is intermittent in nature lasting for limited periods of time
- 25. a person who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation or political community.
- 26. : the state of being enlightened. capitalized : a philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism
- 28. a European small farmer or farm laborer.
- 29. as placed in virtual control of French finances, as director of the royal treasury, on October 22, 1776, and was appointed director general of the finances on June 29, 1777.
Down
- 2. a small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.
- 4. sought to limit the taxation privileges of the First and Second Estates.
- 5. is the national anthem of France.
- 6. was best known for The Spirit of Laws (1748), one of the great works in the history of political theory and of jurisprudence.
- 11. The Bourbons were the ruling house of France to 1792. Bourbon was therefore the surname of Louis XVI.
- 12. a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France.
- 13. All paid a tax on the number of people in the family
- 16. : the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country.
- 17. His most famous works included the fictitious Lettres philosophiques (1734) and the satirical novel Candide (1759).
- 18. A tax
- 19. a book listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or thematically with details such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
- 20. the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
- 21. finds the solution to the problem of reconciling authority and freedom: where the laws are the citizens' general will, the law-abiding citizen obeys only his own will and not the command of any other person, and so is free.
- 27. one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.