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33 Cards in this Set
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Parlement
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Supreme court of the ancien régime in France.
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Assembly of Notables
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An assembly organized by Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the minister of finance of France.
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Estates General
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The representative assembly of the three “estates” of France.
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Cahiers de doleances
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List of grievances which was to be presented to Louis XVI.
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Abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
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A Catholic priest, he rose to become chancellor of the diocese of Chartres in 1788.
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National Assembly
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The revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate.
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Tennis Court Oath
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Oath taken by deputies of the Third Estate at a nearby tennis court when they were locked out of their meeting hall at Versailles.
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Olympe de Gouges
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She demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves.
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Women’s March to Versailles
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Women marching to demand food from the King and Queen.
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assignats
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Issued as paper currency in France (1789–1796) by the revolutionary government and secured by confiscated lands.
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Act passed by the National Assembly during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic church in France to the state.
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Legislative Assembly
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Persons who make or amend or repeal laws.
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Declaration of Pillnitz
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This declaration was intended to warn the French revolutionaries not to infringe further on the rights of Louis XVI.
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Paris Commune
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Established in the Hôtel de Ville, it became insurrectionary.
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Sans-culottes
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The term applied to the sectionary “elites” in Paris connected with the Jacobins.
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National Convention
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Comprising 749 deputies elected after the overthrow of the monarchy, it sought to provide a new constitution for France.
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Committee of Public Safety
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Political body of the French Revolution that controlled France during the Reign of Terror
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The Vendee
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A département in west central France, on the Atlantic's Bay of Biscay.
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Republic of Virtue
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a speech given by Maximilien Robespierre. In it, he provided a statement of his political theory.
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Maximillian Robespierre
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French revolutionary leader during the Reign of Terror
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Thermidorian Reaction
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Revolt in the French Revolution against the Reign of Terror that was initiated on 9 Thermidor (July 27).
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The Directory
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Held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. Five Directors shared power.
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Concordat of 1801
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Agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII that defined the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France.
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Civil Code
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The French Napoleonic code.
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Prefects
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The State's representative in a région (préfet de région) or département.
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Germaine de Stael
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French writer, literary patron, and critic who introduced romanticism to French literature in On Germany.
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Treaty of Amiens
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Agreement signed at Amiens, France, by Britain, France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic (The Netherlands).
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The Third Coalition
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This was the first of five coalitions against Napoleon and his empire.
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Naval engagement in the Napoleonic Wars that established British naval supremacy in Europe.
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Continental System
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The blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Britain through the destruction of British commerce.
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Hegemony
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The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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Nationalism
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Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.
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Elba
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Island of Italy between Corsica and the mainland. Napoleon spent his first period of exile here.
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