Across
- 2. government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation.
- 4. king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his wife (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined.
- 9. a groundbreaking political body formed at the outset of the French Revolution.
- 11. meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons.
- 12. made up of individuals who held titles of nobility, such as dukes, marquesses, counts, viscounts, and barons.
- 13. the political and social system in France before the Revolution of 1789
- 14. any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789.
- 15. social class oriented to economic materialism and hedonism, and to upholding the political and economic interests of the capitalist ruling-class.
Down
- 1. a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution.
- 3. a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
- 5. climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.
- 6. key moment that set off the French Revolution. On June 20, 1789
- 7. a wave of panic that swept the French countryside in late July and early August 1789.
- 8. the lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three Estates in France, between January and April 1789, the year in which the French Revolution began.
- 10. The legislature of France from October 1, 1791, to September 20, 1792, during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and the National Convention.