French Revolution

4. a revolutionary political club made up of middle class lawyers or intellectuals
5. a strong feeling of pride and devotion to one’s country
6. an invention of the French Revolution used to kill those sentenced to death
8. a French journalist and suffragist who authored the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
9. a period from September 1793 and July 1794 in which those considered traitors to the revolution were murdered
11. an aristocratic “hero of two worlds” who fought in the American Revolution and led the National Guard
17. a popular military leader who eventually became emperor of France
19. a weak French king whose reigns end because of the revolution
20. social class

1. a grim medieval fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners
2. a lawyer and politician who earned the nickname “the Incorruptible”
3. a famous oath made on a tennis court by members of the French Third Estate
7. middle class
10. a financial advisor to Louis XVI
11. a French queen consort whose extravagant lifestyle upset many
12. a government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarch
13. working class men and women who pushed the revolution into a radical phase
14. the legislative body consisting of representatives of the three estates
15. old order
16. nobles, clergy, and others who fled France and its revolutionary forces
18. dissenting groups of people