Event/Person/Thing | Description |
Calonne | Financial Controller who called the Assembly of Notables |
Necker | Popular Financial Controller who was sacked by Louis in 1789 |
Abbe Sieyes | Wrote the pamphlet; 'What is the third estate'? |
Brissot | Girondin leader and journalist |
Desmoulins | Jacobin writer and (later) indulgent |
Danton | Jacobin leader and Cordelier. |
Robespierre | Jacobin leader: The Incorruptible |
St Just | Robespierre's acolyte |
Marat | Jacobin journalist who wrote 'L'ami du Peuple' |
Hebert | Jacobin journalist who wrote 'Le Pere Duchesne' |
Fouquier-Tinville | Chief Prosecutor |
Rousseau | Radical enlightenment philosopher |
David | Revolutionary artist |
Dumouriez | Girondin General |
Roland | Girondin minister who escaped the purge and killed himself |
Lafayette | Feuillant and first commander of the National Guard |
September Massacres | 'Suspects' in the prisons were killed in 1792 |
Champ de Mars Massacre | National Guard opened fire on protesters calling for a Republic in 1791 |
General maximum | Price limit imposed on goods during the Terror |
Revolutionary Tribunal | Set up to try 'suspects' |
Assignats | Paper currency that led to inflation |
Chouans | Breton rebels during Terror and Directory |
CGS | 'Police Committee' - tension with the CPS |
CPS | Became the executive power during the Terror |
National Convention | Legislature from Autumn 1792 to Autumn 1795 |
National (Constituent) Assembly | Group originating in the Third Estate Deputies that drew up the Constitution of 1791 |
Legislative Assembly | Elected under Constitution of 1791 but only had legislative power until September 1792 |
Directory | System of government from 1795-99 |