The French Revolution

7. a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
8. Revolution- the revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789
11. a person who takes a position in the political center
14. Jacques Danton- French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)
16. XIV- king of France from 1643 to 1715
18. a privileged class holding hereditary titles
19. not concerned with or devoted to religion
20. autocracy governed by a ruler who usually inherits authority
21. a vote determining public opinion on a question
22. a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins

1. the social class between the lower and upper classes
2. a person who has revolutionary ideas or opinions
3. form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
4. a palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles
5. a crime that undermines the offender's government
6. instrument of execution used for beheading people
9. XVI- king of France from 1774 to 1792
10. of terror- any period of brutal suppression thought to resemble the Reign of Terror in France
12. a member of the European royal family that ruled France
13. imposition of charges against a citizen's person or property
15. a legal right to vote
17. regime- a political and social system that no longer governs