The French Revolution

2. the main item central to the peasant diet that was in constant shortage
5. the prison/fortress stormed & ransacked by a French mob in order to obtain weapons
7. movement based in logic that argued that the right to rule comes from the people
8. monarch, a king or queen that rules with total authority over all aspects of society
10. estate, the wealthiest and most powerful social class made up of Catholic Church clergy before the French Revolution
12. assembly, the democratic body that governed during the first half of the revolution
13. XVI, the king/monarch during the French Revolution
14. reign of, implemented by the Committee of Public Safety to eliminate suspected counter-revolutionaries

1. palace; home of the kind and queen before a mob of women forced them to move to Paris
3. of the rights of Mand and Citizen, the preface to France's first Constitution
4. right to rule,theory that it was God's will that the king act as God's agent on Earth
6. an execution device that make executions faster and more efficient
9. Antoinette, the Queen that may or may not have said Let them eat cake!
11. Bonaparte, army general that declared himself emperor of France