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The French Rev.
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Old Regime | system of feudalism |
| estate | social class of people |
| Louis XVI | weak king who came to French throne in 1774 |
| Marie Antoinette | unpopular queen, wife of Louis SVI |
| Estates-General | assembly of representatives from all three estates |
| National Assembly | French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate |
| Tennis Court Oath | promise made by Third Estate representatives to draw up a new constitution |
| Great Fear | wave of panic that swept the country of France |
| Legislative Assembly | assembly that replaced the National Assembly in 1791 |
| emigre | noble or other person who left France during the peasant uprisings and who hoped to come back to restore the old system |
| sans-culotte | radical group of Parisian wage-earners |
| Jacobin | member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political organization |
| guillotine | machine for beheading people |
| Maximilien Robespierre | revolutionary leader who tried to wipe out every trace of France's past monarchy and nobility |
| Reign of Terror | period of Robespierre's rule |