French Revolution Vocabulary

 a set of laws created during Napoleon’s reign that protected basic freedoms and guaranteed e a set of laws created during Napoleon’s reign that protected basic freedoms and guaranteed equality before the law

• Napoleonic Code

• constitution

• Code of Law

• rules

To distribute, publish, or send out

• make

• issue

• deliver

• send

a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.

• axe

• musket

• hatchet

• guillotine

A military general who supported the revolution. He took part in a coup d’etat and named himself emperor of France. Died in exile on the island of St. Helena

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Maximilien Robespierre

• King Louis XVI

• Joan of Arc

The three groups that made up French society at the time of the French Revolution: the clergy, the nobles, and the common people

• The common people

• The Three Estates

• The clergy

• The nobles

Called this because they met at the Jacobin Monastery, they were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution

• The Jacobins

• The clergy

• The nobles

• The King

 someone who has extreme ideas advocating for political or social change

• recluse

• rebel

• radical

• racist

 Third estate who were the peasants, craftspeople, and laborers of the land. They paid taxes including a tax on salt and they had to work a certain number of days for free for the local lord or the king each year.  They were ninety eight percent of the population.

• common people

• clergy

• nobles

• king

The Second Estate.  These people held most of the high offices in the land, got special privileges, and didn't have to pay most of the taxes.

• king

• common people

• nobles

• clergy

The first estate.  People who worked for the church including priests, monks, bishops, and nuns. The smallest estate in terms of population. They did not pay taxes

• king

• clergy

• common people

• nobles