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Bourgeois
the middle class-bankers, factory owners, merchants, professionals, and skilled artisans
Emigres
nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution
Estates general
-an assembly of representatives from all three estates
First estate
First Estate - Church leaders
Georges Danton
- a lawyer among the club’s most talented and passionate speakers
Great fear
a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
Guillotine
- a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution
Jean
Jean Paul Marat
one of the most prominent Jacobins, as club members, were called this
Left wing
people who want to radically change government
Legislative assembly
people who want to radically change government
Maximilian. Robespierre
A Jacobin leader who took absolute control of France and killed those who went against him.
National Assembly
A French congress established by representatives of the third estate, who made laws and reforms.
National Convention
a new legislature that abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic.
Old regime
the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution.
Right wing
people who want few or no changes in government often are called right wing or are said to be on the right.
Sans culottes
a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a great voice in the government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages
Second estate
Great lords
Third estate
Commoners
Plebiscite
direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject proposal.
Scorched earth policy
the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land.
