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| 268197200 | The Spirit of the Laws | The Spirit of the Laws is a treatise on political theory published anonymously by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in 1748 with the help of Claudine Guérin de Tencin. | 0 | |
| 268197201 | Congress of Vienna | (1814 - 1815) Assembly that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. | 1 | |
| 268197203 | Revolutions of 1848 | Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary the revolutions failed. | 2 | |
| 268197205 | Simon Bolivar | The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. | 3 | |
| 268197207 | Estates General | France's traditional national assembly with representatives of the three estates, or classes, in French society: the clergy, nobility, and commoners. The calling of the Estates General in 1789 led to the French Revolution. | 4 | |
| 268197209 | Olympe de Gouges | French journalist who published the declaration of rights of women and the female citizens. | 5 | |
| 268197211 | John Locke | 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. | 6 | |
| 268197213 | Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | queen and king during the French Revolution, Marie was Austrian (French hate Austrians) lived a spoiled, lavish lifestyle when the rest of France was starving | 7 | |
| 268197215 | Maximilien Robespierre | "The incorruptable;" the leader of the bloodiest portion of the French Revolution. He set out to build a republic of virtue. | 8 | |
| 268197217 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile. | 9 | |
| 268197219 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. | 10 | |
| 268197221 | Ancien Regime | a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution) | 11 | |
| 268197222 | National Assembly | (1789) Was a transitional body between the Estates-General and the National Constituent Assembly. | 12 | |
| 268197225 | Jacobins | a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution | 13 | |
| 268197226 | Directory | an alphabetical list of names and addresses | 14 | |
| 268197228 | Civil Code | a systematic collection of laws designed to comprehensively deal with the core areas of private law | 15 |
