Old Regime Off With Their Head To Russia With Love Louis Potpourri
The Clergy
What is the First Estate?
The Bourgeoisie and the Common People
What is the Third Estate?
This Estate paid all the taxes.
What is the Third Estate?
Nobles
What is the Second Estate?
The name of the French Parliement before the revolution.
What is the Estates-General?
French King
Who is Louis XVI?
The wife of the king.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Led the Committee of Public Safety
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Approximate number of people sent to the guillotine.
What is – men, women, and children?
This estate had the most people sent to the guillotine.
What is the third estate?
This gave France a uniform system of law.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This policy was Napoleon’s biggest domestic mistake.
What is the Continental System?
Napoleon overthrew this government to become dictator of France.
What was the directory?
Napoleon began these government-run schools.
What is a lycees?
Napoleon’s first military victory over the Austrians was in this country.
What is Italy?
The Sun King
Who is Louis XIV?
Louis of the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
Came to power between Napoleon’s two reigns.
Who is Louis XVIII?
This radical group brought Louis to trial.
Who are the Jacobins?
This group of nobles fled France and left Louis alone.
Who are the emigres?
The 3 rd Estate and reformers from the other Estates formed the National assembly and swore this.
What is the Tennis Coat Oath?
Louis XVI’s finance minister who wanted to tax the nobility.
Who is Robert Turgot?
Prussian noble issued this declaration warning French revolutionaries to surrender or suffer the consequences.
What is the Brunswick Manifesto?
French constitutional document similar to the Declaration of Independence and American constitution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
He thought and spoke so fast that he could dictate to four secretaries on four separate topics at the same time.
Who is Napoleon?