MT 7 - French Revolution (people)

Question 1

Louis XVI

Answer 1

French king at the start of the French Revolution

beheaded during the revolution in 1793

Question 2

Louis XVIII

Answer 2

Louis XVI’s brother

restoration of monarchy - king after Napoleon is taken out of power

Question 3

Marie Antoinette

Answer 3

French queen, wife to Louis XVI - Austrian by birth

beheaded during the revolution in 1793

Question 4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 4

French military leader - Italian by birth
attended French military school
decisive, tactical, well spoken
Emperor of France 1802 - 1815

Question 5

Duke of Wellington

Answer 5

British military leader of troops that defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo

Question 6

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 6

leader of the Committee of Public Safety

leader of the “Reign of Terror” and beheaded at the end

Question 7

Jean-Paul Marat

Answer 7

French radical leader

journalist of the “Friend of the People” and defended the September Massacres