French Revolution Vocabulary
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rjeffrey13 on February 13, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 nationalism | strong feeling of pride in and devotion to France that resulted from the new French national identity |
| Louis XVI | weak indecisive king who pursued pleasures before serious business |
| reign of terror | from September 1793 to July 1794, revolutionary courts conducted hasty trials and executions of thousands of supposed traitors |
| republic | government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarchy |
| Estates General | French kings refused to call these into sessions because they feared nobles would use it to recover feudal powers lost under absolute rule |
| Napoleon | popular military hero who politicians turned to for support, but he outwitted them all and took control of france |
| sans-culottes | working class men and women who pushed the revolutionaries to demand a republic |
| National Assembly | voted to end feudalism by abolishing their own privileges including feudal dues, exclusive hunting rights, special legal status, and exemption from taxes |
| National convention | new legislative body created when the radicals replaced the royalist government in Paris |
| Levee en masse | mass levy or tax that required all citisens to support the war effort |
| Tennis Court Oath | vow to never separate and to meet whenever the circumstances might require until a sound and just constitution was established |
| Jaques Necker | advised the king to reduce extravagant court spending, reform government and abolish burdensome tariffs on internal trade |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | first step to writing a constitution, this document said all French men were born free and equal, had natural rights and were equal before the law |
| Marquis de Lafayette | headed the National guard, a mostly middle-class militia organized in response to the arrival of royal troops in Paris |
| deficit spending | one cause of evonomic troubles in France defined as the government spending more money than it takes in |
| great fear | resulting from rumors that nobles were attacking villages and towns, government troops were seizing peasant crops and attempting to reimpose medieval dues |
| Ancien regime | everyone in France was divided into three social classes in this old order |
| Women's March | October 5, six thousand women shouting "bread" demanded to see the King and refused to leave Versailles until he met their demand to return to Paris |
| Suffrage | The right to vote that was given to male citizens, not just property owners, after radicals took over the legislature in August 1791 |
| Bourgeoisie | Middle class, sat at the top of the third estate |
| directory | government set up by the Constitution of 1795 with a two house legislature elected only by male citizens with property |
| Marie Antionette | although she was compassionate to the poor, her acts went unnoticed because her lifestyle overshadowed them |
| civil constitution of the clergy | placed the French Catholic Church under state control with elected priests and bishops, paid them a salary, ended papal authority over the French Catholic Church and dissolved convents and monestaries |
| Committee on public safety | 12 member committee that had almost absolute power as it battled to save the revolution |
| tri color | early flag used by revolutionaries that became France's national flag |
| Bastille | July 14, 1789 about 800 partisans demanded weapons and gunpowder believed to be stored in this medieval fortress |
| Factions | dissenting groups of people who competed for political power |
| Citizen | title given to all French people to eliminate all other titles of the ancien regime |
| Olympe de Gouges | imprissoned and executed for expressing her views that woman had the same right as men and should be able to hold public office |
| Constitution of 1791 | first constitution of France, set up a limited monarchy with a new Legislative Assembly to make laws, collect taxes, and decide issues of war and peace |
| Cahiers | notebooks of greivences in which the three estates listed, among other things fairer taxes, freedom of press and regular meetings of the French legislative body |
| Liberty Caps | worn by male revolutionaries to show their support for the ideas of lerty and equality for all male citizens |
| Robespierre | shrewd lawyer and politician who quickly rose to leadership of the the Committee of public safety and led the Terror |
| emigres | nobles, clergy and others who fled Revolutionary France and told other European elite of attacks on their privileges, property, religion and lives |
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