The French Revolution

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  1. 2. a period on French history between 1791 and 1794 marked by the ascendancy of Maximilien Robespierre.
  2. 6. a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
  3. 8. a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Mountain.
  4. 9. a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate
  5. 12. an event and oath during the first days of the French Revolution.
  6. 14. The wife of Louis XVI
  7. 16. a tall, upright frame in which a weighted and angled blade is raised to the top and suspended.
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  1. 1. a monarchy in which governing powers of the monarch are restricted by a constitution.
  2. 3. a naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars.
  3. 4. a general panic that occurred between 17 July and 3 August 1789 at the start of the French Revolution.
  4. 5. The king during the revolution who was disliked.
  5. 7. A rude nickname given to Marie Antoinette.
  6. 10. Three different social groups in france before the revolution
  7. 11. another term for the guillotine
  8. 13. a French military and political leader who rose to power during the french revolution.
  9. 15. To be banished from a certain land