Glencoe World History Chapter 18

The first class of French society made up of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

The second class of French society made up of the noblility.

They consisted of the bourgeoisie, the san-culottes and the peasants; they paid high taxes and had no special privileges.

French general who became emperor of the French.

A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.

The Third Estate wanted to set up a constitutional government that would make the clergy and nobility pay taxes too. Voting seemed to be a problem because each estate only got 1 vote. The Third Estate demanded that each deputy have one vote but the king had favored the current system. The Third Estate declared it at the National Assembly and swore the Tennis Court Oath until they had a new constitution.

Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France (June 20, 1789).

A decree by the National Assembly that established a national church system with elected clergy.

The protagonist of Les Miserables.

"without breeches"

The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France, conducted foreign policy, and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795.

A committee of five in an attempt to mediate between royalists and Jacobins.

Comprised of dependent states, allied states, and the French Empire.

Tax on property and land. Provided permanent income for French royal government.

A document that guaranteed due process in judicial matters and established sovereignty among the French people.

Set up a limited monarchy. There was still a king, but a Legislative Assembly would make the laws.

The small government in Paris who wanted to resist the conservative leaders of France and tried to form their own government.

Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular and thought to be immoral. Her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband.

King of France from 1774 to 1792. His failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined.

Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror.

A leader of the radical Montagnard faction during the French Revolution.

Napoleonic Code; this code preserved most of the gains of the revolution by recognizing the principle of the equality of all citizens before the law, etc.

An army of 500,000 men made by Napoleon to beat Alexander I when he refused to obey the Continental System.

Leader of the combined British and Prussian army; would defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.

The battle on June 18, 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat.

The more radical side of the National Assembly. They wanted the king to be executed.

The conservative side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.

This island in the Mediterranean Sea off of Italy where Napoleon was initially exiled after he abdicated the throne for the first time.

A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791. This replaced the National Assembly and took away most of the king's power.

A sudden overthrow of the government.

A French feminist playwright and journalist who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen. Demanded equal rights for women from the new French National Assembly.

The label applied to deputies sitting on the raised left benches in the National Convention during the French Revolution.

A French jail.

Napoleon's efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding Importation of British goods Into Europe.

Place of Napoleon's last exile and death.

Robespierre's attempt to erase all traces of the monarchy, nobility and the Catholic Church.

The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives.

The free and democratic French Republic established in 1946 by Charles de Gaulle.

A native or naturalized member of a state or other political community.

To organize into a code or system, such as a body of law.

A former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital.