Across
- 5. member of the powerful Committee of Public Safety; played an important part in the agitation which brought about the fall of the French monarchy; president of the National Convention
- 7. palace for the French monarchy and royalists
- 9. a French-made device consisting of a heavy blade in a tall frame, used in the past for killing criminals by cutting off their heads
- 10. queen of France, wife to King Louis XVI
Down
- 1. period of violence during the French Revolution from the mass executions of thousands of counter-revolutionary suspects
- 2. radical left-wing republican political group during the French Revolution
- 3. last King of France before the fall of the french monarchy during the Revolution
- 4. the right of a sovereign to rule as set forth by the theory of government that holds that a monarch receives the right to rule directly from God and not from the people
- 6. a shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist who rose up the ranks of the French military system and crowned himself emperor in 1804
- 8. a legislative and consultative assembly of the different estates