C. 19.1 wor-def (Fr.Rev) Flashcards
Thomas Jefferson
As United States minister to France when revolutionary fervor was rising toward the storming of the Bastille in 1789, He became an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, even allowing his residence to be used as a meeting place for the rebels led by Lafayette.
Marquis de Lafayette
a French aristocrat, a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution.
Marquis de Lafayette
a French aristocrat, a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution.
King Louis XVI (Bourbon)
approved French military support for the American colonies in their successful struggle against the British, but the expense nearly bankrupted the country. Louis convened the Estates-General in an effort to solve his budget crisis, but by doing so he unwittingly sparked the French Revolution
Marie Antoinette
the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I
Olympe de Gouges
a social reformer and playwright who advocated for all those she saw as under represented including orphaned children, and women (especially unwed women). When the “Declaration of the Rights of Man” became the preamble of the French Constitution in 1789, she wrote her own version that same year
The Jacobins
a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799). The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the __
The Girondists
a political group during the French Revolution. From 1791 to 1793, they were active in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention. Together with the Montagnards, they initially were part of the Jacobin movement
Maximilien Robespierre
a radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789. Robespierre briefly presided over the influential Jacobin Club, a political club based in Paris. He also served as president of the National Convention and on the Committee of Public Safety.
The San-culottes
the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime
Bourgeoisie
French middle class
Estates (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
the different classes in France at the time of the revolution, each representing a particular segment of society
National Assembly
the new government set up by the French Revolution in the summer of 1789. In the next few years, the deputies debated a new constitution for France, including its colonial empire.
Tennis Court Oath
a key moment that set off the French Revolution. On June 20, 1789, it was taken. There, the men of the National Assembly swore an oath never to stop meeting until a constitution had been established
The Bastille
a state prison on the east side of Paris was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
