The Cataclysm of Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon Flashcards
3 classes called “Estates” or the orders of France
- First estate consisted of the Clergy
- Second estate consisted of the nobility
- Third estate consisted of everyone else
Bourgeoisie
Elite of wealthy commoners who were merchants, manufactures, and professionals
Body of deputies from the three estates or orders
The Estate General
Tennis Court Oath
They agreed not to separate until they had given France a Constitution
Bastille
A huge fortified prison that symbolized royal authority
Great Fear
A period of panic and riot but rural peasants, amid rumors, “aristocratic conspiracy”, to overthrow the third estate
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaimed
“Men are born and remain free, and equal in rights”
Political “clubs”, French devotionally radical republican, left wing group
Jacobins
The slogans and values that will define the revolution
Liberty, equality, fraternity
Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday a Girondin sympathizer, Convention to agreed to establish
“Revolutionary armies”; Committee of Public Safety
Between September 5, 1793 and July 27, 1794; This Period is called the…
Regin of Terror
