Vocab for class at Niceville HS. The list is chapter 21.
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| 9640132 | Jean le Rond D'Alembert | Coeditor of the Encyclopedie. | 0 | |
| 9640133 | Assignats | Paper currenty, the French churcehs were used as collateral - the first Grench paper currency issued by the General Assembly. | 1 | |
| 9640134 | Bastille | Medieval fortress that was converted to a prison stormed by peasancts for ammunition during the early stages of the French Revolution. | 2 | |
| 9640135 | Bourgeoisie | Comfortable members of the 3rd estate. Basically middle class, wanted the privileges of the nobility and upper clergy. | 3 | |
| 9640136 | Revolutionary Calendar | Created by the National Convention, it was established after the French Revolution; day one was the first day of the French Republic. | 4 | |
| 9640137 | Committee of Public Safety | Established and led by Robespierre, fixed bread prices and nationalized some businesses. Basically secret police and also controlled the war effor. Instigated the Reign of Terror. | 5 | |
| 9640138 | Conspiracy of Equals | Led by "Gracchus" Babeuf, an attempt to renew violent rebellion after the Thermidore reaction, communistic in nature. | 6 | |
| 9640139 | Consulate | Form of government which followed the directory; established by Napoleon; ended when Napoleon was crowned emperor. | 7 | |
| 9640140 | National Convention | The third estate of the Estates General; broke from the Estates because they wanted the Estates to sit as a committee and not as segregated groups. | 8 | |
| 9640141 | Danton | Led the Mountains with Robespierre, also executed with Robespierre. | 9 | |
| 9640142 | David | Napoleon's painter, painted the famous protrain of Napoleon's coronation. | 10 | |
| 9640143 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Written by the National Convention; declared all men could do anything as long as it did not harm others. | 11 | |
| 9640144 | Directory | Group fo five men who served as liaisons between Robespierre and the Assembly. Overthrown by Napoleon. | 12 | |
| 9640145 | Encyclopedie | Collection of works compiled during the Enlightenment; explained many aspects of society. | 13 | |
| 9640146 | Estates General | Not called since 1614; finally called by Louis XVI at the advice of his financial minister; demanded control over the King's finances; he refused and dismissed them; sat as three segregated groups. | 14 | |
| 9640147 | Gabelle | Tax on salt during pre-revolutionary France; included in the Estate's list of grievances. | 15 | |
| 9640148 | Girondists | One of the two halves of the divided National Convention. | 16 | |
| 9640149 | Great Fear | Followed the storming of the Bastille; people were scared of outlaws and reprisals; fanned flames of rebellion. | 17 | |
| 9640150 | Guillotine | Fast and relatively humane; used for mass executions. | 18 | |
| 9640151 | Intendants | Created by Napoleon; kept watch over their own area of France; allowed Napoleon not to have to worry about petty problems. | 19 | |
| 9640152 | Levee en Masse | Law that obligated all French men between certain ages to enlist in the army. | 20 | |
| 9640153 | Louis XVI | King of France; executed for treason by the National Convention; absolute monarch; husband of Marie Antoinette | 21 | |
| 9640154 | Marie Antoinette | Louis XVI's wife; executed. | 22 | |
| 9640155 | Robespierre | Member of the National Assembly; led the Mountains; began and led the Committee of Public Safety; began the Reign of Terror. | 23 | |
| 9640156 | Sans-culottes | Petty laborers and laboring poor; wore pants not knee breeches; became a major political group in revolutionary France. | 24 | |
| 9640157 | Tennis Court Oaths | Taken by the National Assembly; stated that they would not disband until they had made a new constitution. Met here because they were unable to go to their meeting place. | 25 | |
| 9640158 | First Estate | Clergy | 26 | |
| 9640159 | Second Estate | Nobility | 27 | |
| 9640160 | Third Estate | Artisans, etc. Everyone not in the First or Second Estate. | 28 | |
| 9640161 | Thermidorean Reaction | A reaction against the violence of the Reign of Terror. Robespierre was executed. | 29 | |
| 9640162 | Ancien Regime | The old order before the Revolution in France. | 30 | |
| 9640163 | Regicide | The killing of the king. | 31 | |
| 9640164 | Versailles | Site of palace outside Paris. Women marched there to demand action from Louis XVI. | 32 | |
| 9640165 | Mary Wollstonecraft | Wrote "Vindication of the Rights of Man" and "A Vindication of the Rights of Women". | 33 | |
| 9640166 | Berlin Decree | 1806-issued by Napoleon; instituted the Continental System, in the response to British blockade of commercial ports under French control. | 34 | |
| 9640167 | Joseph Bonaparte | Napoleon's brother, made king of Spain but unable to control the Spanish which led to the costly Peninsula War. | 35 | |
| 9640168 | Confederation of the Rhine | League of German States organized by Napoleon in 1813 after defeating the Austrians at Austerlitz. The league colapsed after Napoleon's defeat in Russia. | 36 | |
| 9640169 | Continental System | (1806-12) French economic plan to cripple Britain. Russia's refusal to conform led to the Russian campaign. | 37 | |
| 9640170 | The Grand Army | Combined French armies under Napoleon. Virtually destroyed during Napoleon's ill-fated Russian camapgn. | 38 | |
| 9640171 | Louis XVIII | (1814-1824) tried to issue a Constitutional Charter which accepted many revolutionary changes and guaranteed civil liberties. | 39 | |
| 9640172 | Napoleonic Code | Passed by Napoleon. Took away many of the rights gained by women, aimed as reestablishing the "family monarchy". Modified after Napoleon's defeat. | 40 | |
| 9640173 | Peninsula War | France was forces to invade Spain after the failure of Joseph Bonaparte. Very costly for Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington helped the Spanish. | 41 | |
| 9640174 | Plebiscite | A vote of the people. | 42 | |
| 9640175 | Rosetta Stone | Founded by one of Napoleon's officers during the Egyptian campaign. Allowed people to decipher hieroglyphics. | 43 | |
| 9640176 | Talleyrand | French representative at the Congress of Vienna and limited the demands of other countries upon the French. | 44 | |
| 9640177 | Saint Helena | South Atlantic island. Napoleon's final home after the battle of Waterloo. | 45 | |
| 9640178 | Trafalgar | (October 1805) Britain's Admiral Nelson destroyed the combined French and Spanish navies. Nelson was killed by invasion of Britain now became impossible. | 46 | |
| 9640179 | Metternich | Austrian foreign minister who basically controlled the Congress of Vienna. Wanted to promote peace, conservatism, and the repression of libaral nationalism throughout Europe. | 47 | |
| 9640180 | Castlereagh | British representative at Congress of Vienna. | 48 | |
| 9640181 | The Hundred Days | The time from Napoleon's return from exile on Elba to defeat at Waterloo. | 49 |
