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Miss K's French Rev.
French Rev:The French Rev. Unfolds (Ch. 6.2)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Factions | dissenting groups of people who competed to gain power in Paris |
| Marquis de Lafayette | aristocratic “hero of the two worlds” who moderates looked up to; led a revolutionary militia |
| Olympe de Gouges | a journalist disappointed with the Declaration of the Rights of Man because it exclcuded women; she demanded equal Rights and was imprisoned then executed for her resistance |
| Marie Antoinette | Austrian-born queen of France, married to Louis XVI, who led an extravagant lifestyle which resulted in lack of favoritism of her by the people |
| Émigrés | nobles, clergy, and others who fled France due to fears of the revolution; their fleeing to other countries only fueled the ideas and spread of revolution |
| Republic | government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarch; form of government demanded by the sans-culottes |
| Sans culottes | translates to “without pants” and refers to the men who wore long pants versus the traditional knee-length britches of the time |
| Jacobins | a revolutionary political club made up of mostly middle-class lawyers and intellectuals; used pamphlets and newspapers to advance the republican cause; later set out to erase all traces of the old order of the monarchy |
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