History

Question 1

Absolute Monarch

Answer 1

A monarch who is not bound by the rules of a CONSTITUTION, so has complete power

Question 2

Ancien Regime

Answer 2

Name given to the period before the revolution in France and to the government at this time.

Question 3

The bastille

Answer 3

A prison which Parisians regarded as a symbol of the kings tyrannical Government

Question 4

Bastille day

Answer 4

14th July 1789- start of the French Revolution and still celebrated by the french today

Question 5

Cashier

Answer 5

Pamphlet drawn up by the french village or town to list people’s grievances

Question 6

Constitution

Answer 6

A document laying down downs within which a monarch and government must operate

Question 7

Estate

Answer 7

One of three ranks of French people before the Revolution (Clergy, Nobility and conman people).

Question 8

Estates General

Answer 8

Was an assembly of representatives of the three estates

Question 9

Feudal System

Answer 9

System in France and England, where a peasant held land in return for services and taxes ( feudal dues) paid to the landowner

Question 10

Lettre de cachte

Answer 10

This allows the king to put someone in prison without trial.

Question 11

Louis 16

Answer 11

The French king (1774-1791) executed 21st January 1793

Question 12

Marie Antoinette

Answer 12

Louis 16 extravagant wife who was executed on 16 October 1793.

Question 13

Republic

Answer 13

Form of government without the monarch

Question 14

Sans-Culottes

Answer 14

Ordinary people in France. The name is given to those who became revolutionaries

Question 15

The terror

Answer 15

1792-94 period of instability, fear and lost of executions