AP euro French Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Gallican Church | Roman Catholic church in France, headed by the monarch, nationalized Catholic Church |
| Lettre de cachet | a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal |
| ancien regime | a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution) |
| Jacques Necker | Louis XVI's director of finances tried ot raise taxes but was dismissed |
| cahiers de doleance | each estate was instructed to compile a list of suggestions and greivances and present them to the king |
| What is the Third Estate | Written by Abbe Sieyes it claimed the Third Estate should have the power in France and stated the nobility should be abolished |
| Tennis Court Oath | vow by members of the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written |
| "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. |
| Jean Paul Marat | French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday |
| Civil Constitution of the Clergy | issued by the National Assembly in 1790 that broke ties with the Catholic Church and established a national church system in France with a process for the election of regional bishops. The document angered the pope and church officials and turned many French Catholics against the revolutionaries. |
| Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre |
| Girondins | a group of Jacobins became the left or advanced party of the revoultion and in the legislative assembly and led the country to war |
| Declaration of Pillnitz | the promise by Austria and Prussia to protect the French monarchy and intended to slow down the revolution |
| Georges- Jacques Danton | French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror |
| Committee of Public Safety | emergency government that was to deal with eternal and external challenges to the revolution |
| Maximilien Robespiere | A leader of Jacobins at one time, slowly gained power until he ruled France like a dictator. The period of his rule became known as the reign of terror |
| Levee en masse | entire nation consripted into service as war was defined as a national mission |
| Reign of Terror | time when Robiespierre ruled and found any alleged enemies of the revoultion and brought them before juries to hear their sentence |
| Thermidorian Reaction | a revolt in the French Revolution against the excesses of the Reign of Terror. It was triggered by a vote of the Committee of Public Safety to execute Robespierre and several other leading members of the Terror. This ended the most radical phase of the French Revolution. |
| Coup d'Etat Brumaire | when Napoleon overthrew the Directory and replaced it with the Consulate which held power in three consuls |
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