French Revolution

The Political and social system of France before the revolution of 1789

• Ancien Regime

• Estates

• National Assembly

• Bastille

A major political or social group or class, especially one once having specific political powers, as the clergy, nobles, and commons in France or the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and commons in England

• Jacobin

• Bastille

• Estates

• Bourgeoisie

The group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity

• Clergy

• 2nd Estate

• Marat

• Robespierre

The middle class made up mainly of entrepreneurs, managers, professionals, and skilled office workers, and often characterized as having conventional tastes and values and prizing respectability

• 1st Estate

• Clergy

• Sans-Culottes

• Bourgeoisie

King of France (1754-93), grandson of Louis XV, married to Marie Antoinette in 1770 and the were guillotines during the French Revolution.

• Louis XIV

• None of the Above

• Louis XVI

• King Henry

Queen on France (1755-93) by marriage to Louis XVI of France. Her opposition to reform during the Revolution contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy.

• Catherine Antionette

• Marie Antionette

• Mary Antionette

• Elizabeth Antionette

French History. The legislative body in France before the French Revolution

• 3rd Estate

• 1st Estate

• Estates

• Estates General

A large royal residence built in the seventeenth century by king Louis XVI of France in Versailles, near Paris

• Versailles, Palace of

• Bastilles

• Vincennes Castle in Paris

• Pierrefonds Castle

French History the body constituted by the French Third estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was dissolved in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new legislative assembly

• National Assembly

• Jacobin

• Marat

• Reign of Terror

A fortress in Paris used as a prison, built in the 14th century and destroyed on July 14, 1789

• National Assembly

• Versailles, Palace of

• Bastille

• Estates General