French Revolution Vocabulary (Zheya and Víctor)

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  1. 4. A prominent French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential, and controversial figures of the French Revolution.
  2. 6. Revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General and eventually joined by some members of the First and Second Estates.
  3. 8. Is a way of overspending money, meaning that people were spending more money than what they took in from taxes.
  4. 10. Assembly that operated over the constitution until the National Convention.
  5. 11. A group of people that wanted Louis XVI be executed and used violence to control opposition during the Reign of Terror.
  6. 12. A period of violence where executions and mass killings of thousands of people took place. It was mainly led by Robespierre.
  7. 14. Fortress in Paris, used as a prison by the kings and stormed by the crowd at the start of the French Revolution.
  8. 15. Nobles who fled the revolution and lived abroad.
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  1. 1. The last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
  2. 2. A declaration made by the peasants in which the third estate members declared to stay together until a new constitution was written.
  3. 3. The class of business owners and merchants, originally the “middle class”.
  4. 5. A group of that were against the execution of the King Louis XVI. They were mainly people from outside Paris.
  5. 7. A socio-political system in which absolutism is present. It is divided into three states, and only the poor paid taxes.
  6. 9. A wave of violence in which peasants attacked the rich throughout the country.
  7. 13. The period between the ousting of Maximilien Robespierre and the inauguration of the French Directory.