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