France Flashcards
In 1974 he lost the French election with 49.19% to Giscard d’Estaing. In 1981 he beat him with 51.76%.
Francois Mitterand
This French military once-hero was head of state during the Vichy government of WWII.
Philippe Petain
Last January, the French government unsealed the confession of what 1917 firing squad victim, which is now on display in her Dutch hometown of Leeuwarden?
Mata Hari
During France’s Reign of Terror, this wax modeler was forced to make death masks of freshly guillotined heads.
Madame Tussaud
France’s 1852 to 1870 Second Empire was ruled by the third of this name, known as “the Sphinx” for his enigmatic nature.
Napoleon
In 1913, this French aviator became the first person to fly non-stop across the Mediterranean Sea.
Roland Garros
U.S. troops in Paris on July 4, 1917 visited his tomb, where Lt. Col. Charles Stanton famously said to him, “we are here!”
Marquis de Lafayette
n 1784 the Marquis de Sade was transferred to this prison that gained fame of its own five years later.
The Bastille
It was constructed in the Paris foundry of Gaget, Gauthier & Co. from 1875 to 1884.
The Statue of Liberty
In 1795, while working at the Bureau of Topography of the Committee of Public Safety, Napoleon wrote this romantic novel.
Clisson et Eugénie
In May 1793 this bloodthirsty French lawyer had a message for the people– “Rise in insurrection.”
Robespierre
Published in L’Aurore on January 13, 1898, it caused its author to be convicted of libel.
J’Accuse
In what Brittany city did Henry IV sign a 1598 edict granting more religious rights to French Protestants?
Nantes
In 2015, two Islamist gunmen opened fire in the Paris offices of what satirical newspaper, killing twelve? The newspaper had attracted attention for the publication of controversial cartoons of Mohammed, and the slogan “Je suis Charlie” was adopted by free speech supporters in response to the incident.
Charlie Hebdo
Named for their lack of a particular piece of clothing, this was the name given to the radicalized and militant common people of the lower classes of France who made up the bulk of the revolutionary army during the French Revolution.
Sans-culottes (“Without breeches”)
Founded in 1789 by Maximilien Robespierre, this was the most influential political club during the French Revolution. Their time of political power is best known for the Reign of Terror in 1793.
Jacobins
He was the founder of the Jacobins.
Maximilien Robespierre
This is the name of the period after the Reign of Terror, during which moderate and conservative forces decentralized the power amassed under the radical leftist government of Robespierre. This period is named after the 11th month in the French republican calendar.
Thermidorian Reaction
In 1919 France recovered Alsace-Lorraine from Germany in the Treaty of this.
Versailles
Napoleon, Prince Imperial, the only son of Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie, died at age 23 in 1879 in the Anglo-Zulu War in what is now this country.
South Africa
Joan of Arc lost her life at the age of 19 in this French city.
Rouen
This French explorer with his own lake on the U.S.-Quebec border reached the Great Lakes around 1615.
Samuel Champlain
He was born in Corsica’s capital of Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, the same year the French took over.
Napoleon
In the 1930s Corsican gangster Paul Carbone began the international drug-dealing racket known as this.
The French Connection
Name the polarizing leader of the French far-right political party now known as National Rally (Rassemblement national), who holds the position previously held by her even-farther-right father when the party was still known as the National Front (Front national).
Marine Le Pen
Maximilien Robespierre and Jean-Paul Marat are among the 18th-century Frenchmen associated with the “Society of the Friends of the Constitution” (Société des amis de la Constitution), a club that was best known informally by what name, taken from the monastery which was the club’s frequent meeting place during the early 1790s?
Jacobin
France’s national theater award, it’s named for a man who died in Paris in 1673
Molière
In 1349, the future King Charles V of France purchased land which gave its name to the title of the eldest son of the reigning French monarch (until 1830). What was that title?
Dauphin
By way of 1800’s Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, in exchange for territories in Tuscany, Napoleon Bonaparte (re-)acquired what North American territory, which he subsequently sold three years later?
Louisiana
