Study sets matching "french history"
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Peasant
Artisans
Lower clergy
Tithe
Members of the third estate who lived and worked in the countr…
Workers who were trained and skilled in some trade in small to…
Parish priests and assistants
Tax between 8-10% of people's income, or their value of livest…
Peasant
Members of the third estate who lived and worked in the countr…
Artisans
Workers who were trained and skilled in some trade in small to…
John Locke
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Guillotine
He was a philosopher. Discovered the natural rights. Believed…
A French Historian and Philosopher who is famous for his advoc…
philosopher, writer, and composer. His beliefs contributed to…
The guillotine, the notorious killing machine of the French Re…
John Locke
He was a philosopher. Discovered the natural rights. Believed…
Voltaire
A French Historian and Philosopher who is famous for his advoc…
Old Regime
estates
Louis XVI
Estates-General
old order; system of government in pre-revolution France
term used to describe the social classes into which everyone i…
King of France (1774-1792). Did not grant the reforms that wer…
legislative body made up of representatives of the three estat…
Old Regime
old order; system of government in pre-revolution France
estates
term used to describe the social classes into which everyone i…
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
Estates-General
Robespierre
Daughter of the empress of Austria, married to Louis XVI at ag…
King of France (r.1774-1792 CE) during the revolution. Weak an…
The French national assembly summoned in 1789 by Louis XVI to…
radical Jacobin who began/ led the Reign of Terror.
Marie Antoinette
Daughter of the empress of Austria, married to Louis XVI at ag…
Louis XVI
King of France (r.1774-1792 CE) during the revolution. Weak an…
Vercigetorix
King Clovis
Charles Martel
Charlemagne
Leader of the Gauls
First Frankish King, Converted to Christianity
Defeats Moors and Battle of Tours, the Hammer
"Emperor of the Western World... "Holy Roman Emperor"... "Father of…
Vercigetorix
Leader of the Gauls
King Clovis
First Frankish King, Converted to Christianity
Napoleon Bonaparte
Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleonic Wars
États-Généraux de 1789
Became French emperor in 1804 after many battle victories, esp…
On December 2nd, 1805 this important engagement of the Napoleo…
A series of conflicts fought between France and Europe under t…
The first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a…
Napoleon Bonaparte
Became French emperor in 1804 after many battle victories, esp…
Battle of Austerlitz
On December 2nd, 1805 this important engagement of the Napoleo…
The Arc de Triomphe
Basilica de Sacre Coeur
The Louvre
The Eiffel Tower
This arc was built in honor of those who fought in the French…
The Basilica is a Roman Catholic basilica located at the highe…
Did you know The Louvre is one of the world's largest museums?…
The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 and is the tallest structur…
The Arc de Triomphe
This arc was built in honor of those who fought in the French…
Basilica de Sacre Coeur
The Basilica is a Roman Catholic basilica located at the highe…
Charles VIII
Henry III
Francis I
Henry IV
He began the Italian Wars and died after losing at the Battle…
The last Valois ruler, he presided over the St. Bartholomew's…
He was a fan of Mannerism and commissioned Gilles Le Breton to…
The first of the House of Bourbon, he converted to Catholicism…
Charles VIII
He began the Italian Wars and died after losing at the Battle…
Henry III
The last Valois ruler, he presided over the St. Bartholomew's…
Old Regime
Estates-General
Tennis Court Oath
Great Fear
The Political and Social system that existed in France before…
An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates,…
Promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new…
A wave of fear that swept through France after the Bastille wa…
Old Regime
The Political and Social system that existed in France before…
Estates-General
An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates,…
He spent the bulk of France's finances…
The First and Second Estate
They learned that American colonists su…
The guillotine
What was a negative impact of Louis XIV, the Sun King?
In French society, which two estates were allies?
Why did the bourgeoisie in France begin to consider Enlightenm…
Which invention made executions during the Reign of Terror eff…
He spent the bulk of France's finances…
What was a negative impact of Louis XIV, the Sun King?
The First and Second Estate
In French society, which two estates were allies?
The Old Regime (Ancien Regime)
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Jacques Necker
The political and social system of France in the eighteenth ce…
Last king of France before the Revolution; failed to fix Franc…
Louis XVI's wife, showed more concern for herself than the Fre…
Louis XVI's economic adviser that was fired for recommending t…
The Old Regime (Ancien Regime)
The political and social system of France in the eighteenth ce…
Louis XVI
Last king of France before the Revolution; failed to fix Franc…
Absolutism
Affair of the placards
Bourgeoisie
Catherine de Medici
a myth created by the monarchy (God makes the laws and the kin…
doors plastered with anti-catholic statements- protestants are…
Middle class
Regent for Francis II, italian, had idea of colloquis of poise…
Absolutism
a myth created by the monarchy (God makes the laws and the kin…
Affair of the placards
doors plastered with anti-catholic statements- protestants are…
Trumeau
Chinoiserie
Amoire
Jacques Louis David
A Louis the XVI Standing mirror
Louis the XV
French term for a wardrobe; a tall upright cupboard, with or w…
Neoclassical artist famous for the Death of Socrates and Coron…
Trumeau
A Louis the XVI Standing mirror
Chinoiserie
Louis the XV
Voltaire and Rousseau
King Louis XVI
Absolute monarchy
Estates-General
Enlightenment writers, philosopher famous for attacks on the e…
King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which h…
Monarchical form of government in which the monarch has absolu…
Legislative assembly of the different classes of French subjec…
Voltaire and Rousseau
Enlightenment writers, philosopher famous for attacks on the e…
King Louis XVI
King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which h…
ancien regime
estate
bourgeoisie
deficit spending
The old order or class system in France before the Revolution
French social classes (clergy, nobility, rest of population)
Educated, middle class of France who provided force behind the…
When a government spends more than it takes in taxes and goes…
ancien regime
The old order or class system in France before the Revolution
estate
French social classes (clergy, nobility, rest of population)
sects
Henry VIII
compromise
ghetto
religious groups
called "Defender of the Faith" because he stood firmly against…
acceptable middle ground
a seperate quarter of the community where Jews lived
sects
religious groups
Henry VIII
called "Defender of the Faith" because he stood firmly against…
Old Regime
estates
Louis XVI
Marie Antionette
Social and political system of France in the 1770s
Three large social classes in France under the Old Regime.
The king of France from 1754-1793.
Queen of France,she was unpopular because she had the best dre…
Old Regime
Social and political system of France in the 1770s
estates
Three large social classes in France under the Old Regime.
Louis XIV (14th)
Louis XIV (14th)
Louis XIV (14th)
Louis XIV (14th)
Reigned for 72 years; known as "The Sun King"
Led France through the War of the Spanish Succession.
His chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, dictated much of his f…
Enacted the Edict of Fontainebleau.
Louis XIV (14th)
Reigned for 72 years; known as "The Sun King"
Louis XIV (14th)
Led France through the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Jules César en Gaule avec Vercingétorix
Clovis a gagné contre les Wisigoths et il est devenu chrétien
Charlemagne est devenu empereur de l'occident
Guillaime le Conquérant a gagné la bataille de Hastings
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Clovis a gagné contre les Wisigoths et il est devenu chrétien