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lead to the destruction of the feudal remnant-aristocrats surrendered their special privileges
August 4 Decrees
defined the individual and collective rights of the estates as universal
declaration of the rights of man and the citizen
October 5, 1789- Parisian housewives and men marched to Versailles to protest the lack of bread to the National Assembly
October days
passed in 1790 by the National Assembly, it altered the boundaries of the dioceses, reducing the number of bishops and priests and it transferred the clergy into government officials elected by the people and paid by the state
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
the National motto of France
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or death”-
without culottes, they wore the simple trousers- they were the radical militants of the lower classes, urban laborers
sans-culottes
a lawmaking body of the legislative assembly-urged an immediate war against Austria
Girondins
replaced the Girondins, wanted a strong central government-decreed the law of maximum
Jacobins
the church of France was changed from catholic to a national establishment
Vendee uprising
formed the de facto executive government in france during the reign of terror
National convention committee for public safety
the Jacobin who served the national assembly- known as the Incorruptible- a pivotal personality in the reign of terror
Maximilien Robespiere
period of violence between the Girondins and the Jacobins and marked by the mass executions of enemies of the revolution
Reign of Terror
French term of mass conscription
levee en masse
location of the battle of Valmy between the Prussians who were lead by the duke of Brunswick when they attempted to march on Paris
Valmy
replaced the Jacobins
Thermidoreans
