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- 2. Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
- 5. a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
- 7. The Great Fear was a general panic that took place between 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution.
- 8. The Reign of Terror, commonly The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First French Republic
- 9. all the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death.
- 12. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter it was known as the National Constituent Assembly, although the shorter form was favored.
- 13. The Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 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 of the National Convention.
- 14. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution.
- 15. a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.
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- 1. a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution.
- 3. political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages until the French Revolution of 1789
- 4. Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
- 6. a person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons.
- 10. In France under the Old Regime, the Estates General or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects.
- 11. On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, voting "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution.
