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French Revolution
Words and descriptions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Guillotine | A heavy blade used to behead people |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | human civil rights document from the French Revolution |
| Estates-Genera | the legislative body in France until 1789. The clergy, nobility, and commons. |
| First Estate | the group ordained to perform in the Christian church |
| Second Estate | the second of the political classes; nobility |
| Third Estate | made up of everyone else, from peasants to middle class to the wealthy business class |
| National Assembly | the legislature in France in the first part of the French Revolution |
| Tennis Court Oath | act rebellion by representatives of the unprivileged classes of the French nation |