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Revolutionary Review

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Ancien Regime the aristocratic, social, and political system established in France.
King Louis XVI King of the French from 1791 to 1792... he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was the only king of France to be executed.
Abbe Sieyes French Roman Catholic clergyman, one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution... Wrote What is the Third Estate? became the manifesto of the Revolution that help transform the Estates-General into the National Assembly...
Estates General a legislative assembly of the different classes of French subjects. It had a separate assembly for each class, which were called and dismissed by the king. No true power. Instead it functioned more to distribute royal propaganda.
Tennis Court Oath The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the Third Estate and a few members of the First Estate during a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court building near the Palace of Versailles.
Tennis Court Oath The Oath signified the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI, and the refusal by members of the National Assembly to back down forced the king to make concessions.
Tennis Court Oath The Oath inspired a wide variety of revolutionary activity in the months afterwards, from rioting across countryside to calls for a written French constitution.
Tennis Court Oath communicated in unambiguous fashion the idea that the deputies of the National Assembly were declaring themselves the supreme state power. Crown was increasingly unable to rest upon monarchical traditions of divine right.
Jacobin Club the most famous political club of the French Revolution. Formed at Versailles as a group of Breton deputies to the Estates General. After the fall of Robespierre the club was closed.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.
Girondins a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution. The Girondists were a group of loosely-affiliated individuals rather than an organised political party with a clear ideology.
Tuileries Palace a royal palace in Paris
Committee of Public Safety created by the National Convention, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror. Centralized denunciations, trials, and executions under the supervision of this committee of first nine to twelve members.
Committe of Public Safety The committee was responsible for thousands of executions. Frenchmen were executed under the pretext of being a supporter of monarchy or opposing the Revolution.
Maximilien Robespierre He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.
The Directory a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. The period of this regime constitutes the second to last stage of the French Revolution.
Thermidorian Reaction a revolt against the excesses of the Reign of Terror. It was triggered by a vote of the Committee of Public Safety to execute Robespierre, Saint-Just and other leading members of the Terror. This ended the most radical phase of the French Revolution.
Edmund Burk Reflections on the Revolution in France
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