French Revolution Vocabulary

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  1. 5. a legislative body.
  2. 6. clergy, nobility and commoners.
  3. 9. instrument used for punishment introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
  4. 10. oath sworn by members of the Third Estate who had just formed the National Assembly and were locked out of the meeting of the Estates-General.
  5. 11. the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
  6. 12. a government in which power is vested in a minority.
  7. 13. nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings.
  8. 14. the middle class in a society.
  9. 15. who controlled the legislative assembly until 1793.
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  1. 1. when someone is spending more money than they have.
  2. 2. used as a state prison by King Louis XVI.
  3. 3. one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution.
  4. 4. the French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 7, 1789.
  5. 7. lists of grievances written by the people.
  6. 8. who executed King Louis XVI