French Revolution & Napoleon
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Old (Ancien) Regime | France prior to the French Revolution |
| Banalities | Fees that peasants were obligated to pay landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop and winepress |
| Bastille | The political prison and armory stormed on July 14, 1789 by Partisian city workers alarmed by the kings concentration of troops at Versailles |
| Cahier de Doleances | List of grievances that each estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates General |
| Code Napoleon | The codification and condensation of laws assuring equality and uniformity in France |
| Committee of Public Safety | The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France, conducted foreign policy, and centralized authority 1792-1795 |
| Concordat 1801 | Napoleons arrangement with Pope Pius VII to heal religious division in France with a united Catholic church under bishops appointed by the government |
| Continental System | Napoleon's effort to block foreign trade with England by forbidding Importation of British goods into Europe |
| Corvees | Roadwork; an obligation of peasants to landowners |
| Coup D'etat | Over through of those in power |
| Declaration of Pillnitz | 1791 Austria and Prussia agree to intervene in France to end the revolution with unanimous agreement of great powers |
| Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen | Document that embodied the liberal revolutionary ideals and general principles of the philosophes writings |
| Directory | Five-Man executive committee that ruled France in its own interests as a republic after Robespierre's execution and prior to Napoleon's coming to power |
| Estates General | The french national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crises and correct abuses of the ancient regime |
| Great Fear | The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives |
| Jacobins | The dominant group in the National Convention in 1793 who replaced the girondists. Headed by Robespierre |
| Law of Maximum | The fixing of prices on bread and other essentials under Robespierres rule |
| Levee en masse | The creation under the Jacobins, of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | COnsul and Later Emperor of France who established several of the reforms of the French Revolution during his dictatorial rule |
| Night of August 4, 1789 | Date of the declaration by liberal nobleman of the National Assembly at a secret meeting to abolish feudal regime in France |
| Parlement | Law court staffed by nobles that could register or refuse to register the kings edict |
| Peninsula War | Napoleon's long drawn out war with Spain |
| Robespierre | Jacobin leader during Reign of Terror |
| Sans Cullotes | A reference to Parisian workers who wore loose fitting trousers rather than the tight fitting breeches worn by aristocratic men |
| Taille | A direct tax from which most French nobles were exempt |
| Tennis Court Oath | Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France |
| Treaty of Tilsit | Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over lands of Prussia west of Elbe as well as polish provinces |
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