French Revolution
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| The Enlightenment | A new way of thinking. An era when scientists, artists and others embraced reason.
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| Absolute monarchy | The king had all of the power.
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| Louis XV1 | king of France 1798
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| Estates-General | the French Parliament
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| First Estate | the Church
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| Second Estate | the nobility
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| Third Estate | ordinary people e.g. lawyers, doctors
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| San culottes | the poor people of Paris
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| The Tennis Court Oath | the promise by the Third Estate that they would not go home unless they were given reform.
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| The Flight to Varennes | the king's attempt to escape to Holland and the protection of the Austrian Emperor.
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| Jacobins | group who wanted rapid change to the way France was governed, led by Maximilien Robespierre.
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| Reign of Terror | summer 1793 to summer 1794 when thousands of people were arrested and killed by the Committee of Public Safety.
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| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity | Slogan of the French Revolution: Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood
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| Fall of the Bastille | A large prison fortress that was attacked and captured by the people of Paris
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| 14th July 1789 | Storming of the Bastille. Its anniversary is celebrated every year in France.
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| Guillotine | invented to be a more humane form of execution.
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