Chapter 31

Question 0

Napoleonic law code reforming and centralizing French legal theory and procedures

Answer 0

Civil Code of 1804

Question 1

October 1813 at Leipzig in Eastern Germany. Defeat of Napoleon by forces of Prussia, Austria and Russia.

Answer 1

Battle of the Nations

Question 2

The epoch making manifesto issued by the French Third Estate delegates at Versailles in 1789.

Answer 2

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Question 3

The five member executive organ that governed France from 1795 to 1799 after the overthrow of the Jacobins.

Answer 3

Directory

Question 4

The parliament of France composed of delegates from 3 social orders, clergy, nobility, and commoners.

Answer 4

Estates General

Question 5

Title adopted by Napoleon after his coup de’tat in 1799 that established him as the ruler of France

Answer 5

First Consul

Question 6

Radical revolutionaries during the French Revolution -organized in clubs, headquartered in Paris

Answer 6

Jacobins

Question 7

“The Old Government”; the pre-revolutionary style of government and society in 18th century France

Answer 7

L’ancien régime

Question 8

General conscription for the army, first occurred in 1793 during the French Revolution

Answer 8

Levee en masse

Question 9

A collective name for the decrees and actions by Napoleon between 1800 and 1808 that legalized and systemized many elements of the French Revolution

Answer 9

Napoleonic Settlement

Question 10

The great majority of Frenchmen, those neither clerical not noble

Answer 10

Third Estate

Question 11

The final defeat of Napoleon in 1815 after his return from Elban Exile

Answer 11

Waterloo