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  1. 2. France's traditional national assembly with representatives of the three estates, or classes, in French society: the clergy, nobility, and commoners. The calling of the Estates General in 1789 led to the French Revolution.
  2. 6. Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France (June 20, 1789).
  3. 7. - King of France (1774-1792). In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793.
  4. 9. a great fortress in Paris that stood as a symbol of royal tyranny. On July 14, 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution, a large crowd of Parisians captured the Bastille. This act convinced King Louis XVI to withdraw his troops from Paris and to accept the French Revolution. Ever since then, the people of France have celebrated July 14 as their national holiday.
  5. 10. queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
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  1. 1. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted at the beginning of the French Revolution. Called for freedom in a representative gov.
  2. 3. The upper class of the Third Estate sometimes richer than the nobility
  3. 4. a constitution adopted during the French Revolution that established a constitutional monarchy in France.
  4. 5. a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people
  5. 8. The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives.