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History: French Revolution Flashcards

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Tennis Court Oath

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Oath taken on a tennis court after King Louis XVI locked them out of the place that they were planning to meet before.

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First Estate

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The royal estate (full of royal people)

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Second Estate

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The medium estate (rich-ish people and poor people)

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Third Estate

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The poor estate ( the estate full of poor people who end up revolting against the government)

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Law of Prairial

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You can convict and execute people without evidence

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Law of Suspects

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You can put the people in prison without a trial

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National Assembly

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The revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the third estate (the common people) of the estates-general.

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Petit Trianon

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a small chateau located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France.

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Assignat

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A paper money issued by the National Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution.

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Tithe

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One tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the church and clergy.

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Deficit

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The amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small (shortfall, shortage, debt, etc.).

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Grand Peur (Great Fear)

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A general panic that occurred between July 17 and August 3, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution. It was mainly caused by the worsening grain/wheat shortage.

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September Massacres

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A wave of killings in Paris and other cities in late summer 1792, during the French Revolution.

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Bals Des Victimes

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balls (dances) that were said to have been put on by dancing societies after the Reign of Terror. To be allowed at the balls, one had to be a near relative of someone who had been guillotined during the terror.

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Edict of Fraternity

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Called on European people to rise against their rulers, both secular and spiritual, and overthrow them.

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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

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The motto of the French Revolution meaning freedom, equality, and fraternity.

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Reign of Terror

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A period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions.

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Prussia

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a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg and centered on the region of Prussia.

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interest

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money paid regularly at a particular rate for the use of money lent, or for delaying the repayment of a debt.

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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A fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. The declaration was directly influenced by Thomas Jefferson.

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Sans Coulottes

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The common people of the lower classes in late 18th century France, a great many who became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution.

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La Marseillaise

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A song written in 1792 after the declaration of war by France against Austria.

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Guillotine

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An apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame in which a weighted and angled blade is raised to the top and suspended.

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Constitutional Monarchy

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A form of government in which a king or a queen has all of the power.

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Taille

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a tax levied on the common people by the king or an overlord

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Tribunal

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any person or institution with authority to judge, adjudicate on, or determine claims or disputes.

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The Bastille

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When a massive group of third estate people convened and then raided a heavily-guarded prison for gunpowder.

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Versailles

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A town 11 miles from Paris, founded by King Louis XIV. It was France’s capital for more than a century, from 1682 until 1789.

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Gabelle

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An indirect tax that was applied to agricultural and industrial commodities, such as bed sheets, wheat, spices, and wine.

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The metric system

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A system of measurement introduced by the First French Republic in 1799. Every country uses it except the United States, Myanmar, and Liberia.

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Committee of Public Safety

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a group that formed the De Facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror.

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Battle of Waterloo

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A battle that Napoleon Bonaparte and his army fought in, and lost. They lost to the army of Duke Wellington and the army of the Prince of Wahlstatt, a Prussian army.

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Battle of Trafalgar

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A naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies. This happened from August to December, 1805, during the period of Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).

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Coup d’état

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The illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus.

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People: Louis XIV

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A monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death. He was known as “Louis the Great”.

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People: Edmund Burke

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An Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher. He was known for objections about the French Revolution.

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People: Madame Defarge

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A symbol, used yarn to measure out the life of a man, and cut it to end it; Defarge knits, and her knitting secretly encodes the names of people to be killed by the guillotine during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.

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People: Maximilien Robespierre

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A member of the Estates-General, the Constituent Assembly, and the Jacobin Club. He played an important role on the execution of King Louis XVI. He was named as a member of the powerful Committee of Public Safety.

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People: Marie Antoinette

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Married to King Louis XVI, she was known as “Madame Deficit” during the French Revolution because the country’s financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending and her opposition to the social and financial reforms.

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People: Napoleon Bonaparte

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A French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.

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People: Jacobins

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The Society of the Friends of the Constitution was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution. The club grew into a nationwide republican movement, with a membership estimated at a half million or more.

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People: Jean-Paul Marat

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A physician, radical political theorist, and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. He had a very radical voice towards the Revolution, publishing his views in pamphlets, placards, and newspapers.

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People: Louis XVI

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The King married to Marie. He was executed on January 21, 1793. He was a very bad King and didn’t do very good as a King.

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People: Émigrés

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A person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social self-exile.

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People: Georges Danton

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A leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. He was a moderating influence on the Jacobins, and he was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror after accusations of venality and leniency to the enemies of the Revolution.

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People: The Duke of Wellington

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An Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of 19th century Britain. His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the top rank of Britain’s military heroes.

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People: Brienne

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A French officer and politician, who was guillotined during the French Revolution. He was from the younger branch of the Lomenie Flavignac family originating in Limousin, which became in the seventeenth century the house of Brienne.

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People: Charles Dickens

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An English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era.

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People: Horatio Nelson

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A British flag officer in the Royal Navy. He got shot while standing on the deck of his ship in his uniform with all of his medals and ribbons.

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