The French Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. Clergy, nobility and commoners
  2. 4. a government in which power is vested in a minority; governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary nobility.
  3. 5. He became the leader of the French monarchy in 1774
  4. 8. Urban workers and peasant
  5. 9. The radical wing of representatives in the National Convention
  6. 10. a legislative body
  7. 13. instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. It was introduced into France in 1792 during the Revolution.
  8. 14. the middle class in a society
  9. 15. Fear A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside
Down
  1. 1. Lists of grievances written by the people
  2. 3. Convention The body that replaced the Legislative Assembly
  3. 6. The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution of 1789.
  4. 7. Court Oath oath sworn by members of the Third Estate
  5. 11. The new executive branch established by the constitution written during the moderate Thermidorian Reaction of 1794–1795.
  6. 12. of Terror The period from 1793 to 1794