French Revolution Vocabulary

"a political regime in which the monarch (king or queen) holds all the political power"

• Democracy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Communism

• Timocracy

"the political organization of France before the revolution of 1789. It was characterized by the monarchy and social orders"

• Political Regime

• The Republic

• The Ancien Regime

• L'Ordre de Temps Passe

"an inhabitant of a country who has political rights"

• citizen

• subject

• serf

• peasant

"the document that provides the basis for the political organization of a country and defines its form of government"

• Primary Document

• Political Regime

• Constitution

• Cahier Doleance

"all of the institutions and practices that characterize the political and social organization of a state"

• Constitution

• Ancien Regime

• Estates-General

• Political Regime

"a political system in which the people participate in political decisions by electing government officials"

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Socialism

• Liberalism

"assembly of representatives of the three estates in the Ancien Regime"

• Political Regime

• Estates-General

• Nobility

• Clergy

"the state of not working and spending all one's time in recreation"

• Laziness

• Recess

• Uselessness

• Idleness

"politics based on individual freedom"

• Democracy

• Philosophy

• Liberalism

• The Enlightenment

"an assembly with the power to make laws"

• Parliament

• Philosophy

• The Clergy

• The nobility