French

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

• Beheader

• National Razor

• Guillotine

• Head chopper-offer 3000

A committee established during the French Revolution to identify "enemies of the republic."

• Committee of Public Safety

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• Estates General

The period from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.

• Great Fear

• French Revolution

• Reign of Terror

• Tennis Court Oath

Monarch of france during the 1780s

• Louis XIV

• Louis XV

• Louis XVI

• Louis XIII

Social class consisting of the clergy.

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• The CHURCH!

The bourgeoisie lead this estate and it was made up of merchants, artisans, cooks, servants, peasants etc.

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• 1.2.3.. BOURGEOISIE!

An assembly of representatives from all three estates that met for the first time in 175 years when Louis XVI called them together.

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen

Assembly under the new Constitution that had the power to create laws and to approve or prevent any war the king declared on other nations.

• Legislative Assembly

• National Assembly

• Estates General

• Congress

Native nobles of France who left their country for political reasons during the peasant uprisings (Great Fear)

• Sans-Cullotes

• Radicals

• Emigres

• Jacobins

A radical group of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end of food shortages.

• Sans-Cullotes

• Moderates

• Emigres

• Jacobins