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FR REV & NAPOLEON

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Louis XVI: Louis XVI was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Louis spent too much money for his wife and hurt the economy. Called the meeting that started the rev.
Marie Antoinette: Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She spent France's money on her clothes and pretty things, which hurt the economy.
Maximillian Robespierre: Leader of the rev, beheaded a bunch of people. Told his allies that he had a list of people to behead but wouldn't tell them, so they beheaded him.
Georges-Jacques Danton: Georges Jacques Danton was a French lawyer and a leading figure in the French Revolution. He became a deputy to the Paris Commune, presided in the Cordeliers district, and visited the Jacobin club. Beheaded.
Jean-Paul Marat: A vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice. Charlotte Corday assassinated him with a stiletto.
Charlotte Corday: Assassinated Jean-Paul Marat with a knife(stiletto). Beheaded.
Napoleon Bonaparte: French military commander and political leader, rose to prominence during the Fr Rev & led successful campaigns during the Rev Wars. Elected consul for life. Emperor, Bank of France, Catholicism.
Bourgeoisie: The middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. A capitalist bourgeoisie overthrew the feudal aristocracy in order to remake society according to capitalist interests and values
Sans Culottes: The sans-culottes were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution.
Tennis Court Oath A commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles.
Declaration of the Rights of Man: A human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
Storming of the Bastille Fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille.
Events Surrounding the Fall of Louis Louis did not make the tax vote head count. Louis XVI's counterrevolutionary intrigues with Austria and other foreign nations was discovered.
Guillotine: A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
Reign of Terror: A climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution. A lot of beheading
Committee of Public Safety A committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror, a violent phase of the French Revolution.
National Assembly: A revolutionary assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General.
Jacobin and Girondin They were radical revolutionaries who plotted the downfall of the king and the rise of the French Republic.The Girondins held a more moderate position in the Revolution: they supported democratic reforms, a strong legislative branch at the expense of much
Estates General: Three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons.
1st Estate: The Clergy- church members
2nd Estate: French citizens who possessed a noble title, either through birth, royal gift or venal purchase
3rd Estate: Was made up of everyone else, from peasant farmers to the bourgeoisie – the wealthy business class.
The Directory The governing five-member committee in the French First Republic. Bad at ruling, Napoleon didn't like that.
Rise and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire He took control of France, then got power hungry and tried to take over all of Europe. Lost many men due to stravtion etc. Lost many wars exiled twice, died from skin cancer.
Battle of Waterloo: Fields flooded took long to set up , lost battle
Elba and St. Helena: Islands Napoleon were banished to.
100 Days Napoleon's second rule before 2nd exile
Continental System: The blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce
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