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Louis XVI |
king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; married to Marie Antoinette and they were guillotined (1754-1793) |
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Old Regime |
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Bourgeoisie |
In Marxist theory, the social group opposed to the proletariat in the class struggle |
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Estates-General |
A legislative assembly of representatives from the estates of the nation, as opposed to a provincial assembly |
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Tennis Court Oath |
a pledge signed by 576 members out of 577 of France's Third Estate and a few members of the Second Estate (who as of 17 June 1789 called themselves the National Assembly) during the Estates-General of 20 June 1789 in a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles. |
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Storming of the Bastille |
Paris-July 14, 1789~the medieval fortress and prison known as the Bastille contained only seven prisoners, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution and it subsequently become an icon of the French Republic |
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Night session of August 4th |
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National Assembly |
in some countries, the name of a legislature or the lower house of a bicameral legislature |
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Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen |
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Women’s March on Versailles |
October 4, 1789~women demanding bread for their families |
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
passed July 12, 1790 during the French Revolution, subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government |
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Burke |
to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence |
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Wollstonecraft |
English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women |
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Jacobins |
A radical republican during the French Revolution. |
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Execution of Louis XVI |
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Committee of Public Safety |
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Robespierre |
French revolutionary. Leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror, he was known as an austere and incorruptible man. His laws permitting the confiscation of property and arrest of suspected traitors, many of whom were guillotined, led to his own arrest and execution without trial. |
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Reign of Terror |
a period of the French Revolution, from about March, 1793, to July, 1794, during which many persons were ruthlessly executed by the ruling faction. |
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Directory |
a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people. |
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Napoleon |
a game in which the players bid for the privilege of naming the trump, stating the number of tricks they propose to win. |
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Civil Code of 1804 (Napoleonic Code) |
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Continental System |
Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money. |
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Battle of Waterloo |
the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon |
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Congress of Vienna |
an international conference (1814–15) held at Vienna after Napoleon's banishment to Elba, with Metternich as the dominant figure, aimed at territorial resettlement and restoration to power of the crowned heads of Europe. |
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Balance of Power |
a distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others. |
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Metternich |
ustrian politician who helped form the Quadruple Alliance that ultimately defeated Napoleon I. |
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