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Answer This Estate represented a mere 0.5% of the pre-Revolution population, but owned some 10% of the land.

Question Who are the Clergy?

Answer These members of the 2 nd Estate traced their hereditary titles back centuries.

Question Who are the Nobles of the Sword?

Answer Though they comprised some 96% of the population, the members of this estate owned little land and paid all the taxes.

Question Who are the 3 rd Estate?

Answer Although the lawyers, judges and bureaucrats that made up this portion of the 2 nd Estate were relative newcomers, they were an influential force in pre- revolution France.

Question Who were the Nobles of the Robe?

Answer Though members of the 3 rd Estate, this group often identified more closely to the Nobility than the peasants or shopkeepers who made up the bulk of the French population.

Question Who were the Bourgeoisie? (Haute Bourgeoisie, Upper Middle Class, etc)

Answer This feminist critic of the Revolution and author of the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen” was executed for appealing for clemency for the king.

Question Who was Olympe de Gouges?

Answer This important victim of the Terror was executed under the name of Louis Capet.

Question Who was King Louis XIV?

Answer This architect of the Reign of Terror was himself beheaded, thereby signaling the end of the Terror.

Question Who was Maximilien Robespierre?

Answer This simple sketch by David depicts which important victim of the guillotine on her way to be executed?

Question Who is Marie Antoinette?

Answer This official group was responsible for the Reign of Terror; one would certainly not feel safe being called before them!

Question What was the Committee for Public Safety?

Answer On July 14, 1789, Parisians stormed this armory and prison, an event that symbolized the Revolution.

Question What is the Bastille?

Answer Faced with crises, Louis XIV was compelled to call this assembly, which had not met since 1614.

Question What is the Estates General?

Answer This scene depicts what event?

Question What is the Tennis Court Oath?

Answer Sometimes compared to the American Declaration of Independence, or the Bill of Rights, this document expresses the ideas of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”

Question What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

Answer This group of radicals was led by Danton and Robespierre.

Question What are the Jacobins?

Answer Prior to the sitting of the Estates General, the people of France were invited to submit these official complaints.

Question What are A. Pétitions de Griefs? B.Cahiers de Doléances? C.Déclarations de Tristesses?

Answer Frenchmen returning from the American Revolution started this group of “lovers of liberty.”

Question What is the Society of Thirty?

Answer This French nobleman fought alongside George Washington and went on to play a leading role in the French Revolution.

Question Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?

Answer The scene below depicts what event?

Question What is the Woman’s March on Versailles?

Answer The sans coulottes, ordinary people who supported the revolution, were so-named for what aspect of their appearence?

Question Their plain clothing, “without breeches.”

Answer Surprisingly, Napoleon was not French, but from this island.

Question What is Corsica?

Answer In addition to many early military successes, Napoleon suffered a severe defeat and lost an army here.

Question What is Egypt?

Answer Napoleon instituted this long-lasting reform of the legal system.

Question What is the Civil Code, or Napoleanic Code.

Answer This 1801 agreement with the Church helped Napoleon solidify his support.

Question What is the Concordat?

Answer This was Napoleon’s attempt to create a European-wide economic system to shut out Great Britain.

Question What was the Continental System?

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