| Term | Definition |
|---|
| estates | divided into three orders |
| relics of feudalism | aristocratic privileges |
| bourgeoisie | middle class |
| sans-culottes | ordinary patriots without fine clothes |
| factions | dissenting groups |
| electors | individuals qualified to vote in an election |
| coup d etat | a sudden overthrow of the goverment |
| consulate | a new goverment |
| nationalism | the unique cultural identity of people based on common language, religion, and national symbols |
| Louis XVI | the goverment of Louis XVI had a meeting to raise taxes |
| Tennis Court Oath | deputies swore they would continue to meet until they had produced a french consitution |
| Delcalration of the Rights of Men and Citizen | gave men and citizen men rights to vote |
| Olympe de Gouges | a woman who wrote plays and pamphlets, refused to accept the exclusion of women from political rights |
| Georges Danton | newly appointed minister of justice looke to sought revenge of those who had aided the king and resisted the popular will |
| Jean Paul Marat | published a radical journal called Friend of the People |
| Committee of Public Safety | national convention gave this broad powers to a special committee of 12 |
| Maximilien Robespierre | the committee of public safety was dominated by him |
| Reign of Terror | came up with this to meet the crisis of home |
| Napolean | dominated french and european history from 1799 to 1815 |
| Civil Code | the most important codes or the napoleonic codes |
| Anne Louis Germanne de Stael | lberty was replaced by a despotism that grew increaseingly abritarary in spite of protest by citizens as the prominent writer |
| Duke of Wellington | british and prussian armys commander |
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