French Revolution Vocab

To suspend a session or break off until another time

• Adjourn

• Jurisdiction

• Estates

• Bastille

A prison and weapons fortress in France

• Tower of London

• Tower of Paris

• Bastille

• Guillotine

The French middle class

• Le Middle

• Bourgeois

• Estates

• Baguette

A sudden seizure of political power in a nation

• Coupe d'etat

• Fleur-de-lis

• Orleans

• Versailles

The social classes in France before the French Revolution. First estate - clergy, Second estate - nobility, Third estate - the rest of the population.

• Napoleonic

• Assemblies

• Estates

• Bourgeois

An assembly of representatives from all 3 of the estates or social classes in France

• Laissez Faire

• Versailles

• Estates General

• Reign of Terror

A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.

• The Rack

• Guillotine

• Bourgeois

• Girondins

French military and political leader who rose to fame during the French Revolution and the wars that followed.

• Louis XIV

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Czar Nicholas II

• Louis XVI

A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon

• Napoleonic Code

• Liberty Assembly

• Justinian Code

• Reign of Augustus

A French congress established by representatives of the 3rd estate on June 17, 1789 to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people

• Jacobins Assembly

• National Assembly

• National Convention

• Limited Monarchy