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Chapter 18
Western Civilization II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louis XVI (1754-1793) | Well meaning but ineffectual king of France, finally deposed and executed with his family by revolutionaries |
| Third Estate | Delegates from the common class to the Estates General, the French legislature, whose refusal to capitulate to the nobility and clergy in 1789 predicated the Revolution |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | Revolutionary Document issued in 1789 outlining Enlightenment ideals of equality, freedom and tolerance |
| Olympe de Gouges (1745-1793) | French political radical and feminist, whose Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen demanded an equal place for women in the new French republic |
| Jacobins | Parisian faction of republican leaders who came to power in 1792 |
| Committee of Public Safety | Jacobin leaders who enforced party rule by executing thousands of dissidents September 1793-July 1794 |
| St. Domingue | Former Caribbean French colony, site of slave rebellion in 1791 which embroiled English and French forces until 1804, when it was declared independent nation of Haiti |
| Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) | French general who seized power as dictator 1799-1814. After successful conquest of much of Europe, defeated by Russian and Prussian forces and died in exile |
| Lycees | System of high schools instituted by Napoleon, part of his domestic reform campaign |
| Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793) | Did not admire Great Britain. Opposed moderates. Edited the Friend of the People. |
| Charlotte Corday | A royalist. He killed Jean Paul Marat. |
| Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794) | Popular political leader. Member of the CPS. Wearied of the Terror. Sent to the guillotine April 1794 |
| Maximilien Robespierre | Trained as a lawyer. Became president of the National Convention. Member of the CPS. Enlarged the Terror. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) | Recaptured Toulon from the British. Made brigadier general at age of 24. |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | Victorious over French planters, the British and Spanish. Sets up a constitution |
| The Napoleonic Code (1804) | Uniformity and individualism. Abolition of all feudal privileges. Property rights. Paternal authority and the subordination of women and children. Equality before the law. Outlawed arbitrary arrest and imprisonment |
| Edmund Burke | 1729-1797 |
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