French Revolution & Napoleon

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Banalities

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Fees that peasants were obligated to pay landlord for the use of the village mill, bakeshop and winepress

Question 1

Ancien Regime (old regime)

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France prior to the French Revolution

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Bastille

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Political prison and Armory stormed on July 14, 1789, by Parisian city workers alarmed by the King’s concentration of troops at Versailles

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Cahier de doleances

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List of grievances that the state drew up in preparation for the summoning of the estates-general in 1789

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Code Napoleon

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The codification and condensation of laws assuring legal equality and uniformity in France

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Committee of Public Safety

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

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Concordat (1801)

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Napoleon’s arrangement with Pope Plus VII to heal religious division in France with a unified Catholic Church under bishops appointed by the government

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Continental system

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Napoleon’s efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding importation of British goods into Europe

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Corvees

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Roadwork; an obligation of peasants to landlords

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Coup d’ etat

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Overthrow of those in power

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Declaration of Pillnitz (1791)

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Austria and Prussia agreed to intervene in France to end revolution with the unanimous agreement of the great powers

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Declaration of the rights of man and citizen (August 27, 1789)

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Document that embodied the liberal revolutionary ideas and general principles of the philosphes’ writings

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Directory (1795-1799)

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The five-man executive committee that ruled France in its own interests as a republic after Robespierre’s execution and prior to Napoleon’s coming to power

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Estates General

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The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime

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Great Fear

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Panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of Manor houses and archives

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Jacobins

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The dominant group in the national convention in 1793 who replaced the Girondist. It was headed by Robspierre.

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Law of the maximum

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The fixing of prices on bread and other essentials under Robespierre’s rule

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Levee en masse

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The creation under the Jacobins, of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

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Console and later emperor of France (1799-1815), who established several of the reforms (Code Napoleon) of the French Revolution during his dictatorial rule

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Night of August 4, 1789

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Date of declaration by liberal noblemen of the National Assembly a secret meeting to abolish the feudal regime in France

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Parlement

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Law court staffed by Nobles that could register or refuse to register a king’s edict

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Peninsular War (1808-1813)

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Napoleon’s long-drawn-put war with Spain

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Robespierre (1758-1794)

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Jacobin leader during the reign of terror (1793-1794)

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Sans culottes

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A reference to Parisian workers who were loose-fitting trousers rather than the tight-fitting breaches worn by aristocratic men

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Taille

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A direct tax from which most French nobles were exempt

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Tennis court oath

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Declaration mainly by members of third estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France (June 20, 1789)

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Treaty of Tilsit (1807)

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Agreements between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces