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21 Cards in this Set
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Jacques Louis David
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Artist who famously captured the spirit of the french revolution in his paintings
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Taille
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the income and land tax that King luis tried to make the first and second estates pay in order to get france out of debt
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Diderot
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main fellow behind encyclopedia. he thought emotion and feeling was a more guinine way to arrive at truths than the use of reason. differed from other philosophes.
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Diderot
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philosphe who differed from the others in that he thought emotion and feeling was a more genuine way to arrive at truths than the use of reason.
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The Sun King
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Louis XIV of France
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Old Ancien Regime
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Society was divided into three Estates of the realm: the First Estate, the Roman Catholic clergy; the Second Estate, the nobility; and the Third Estate, the rest of the population.
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bourgoisie
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middle class
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lettres de cachet
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letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or cachet. They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgements that could not be appealed.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen
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defining a set of individual rights and collective rights of all of the estates as one. Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, these rights are universal: they are supposed to be valid in all times and places, pertaining to human nature itself.
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Bourgeoisie
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class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate, but were overtaxed and had none of the privileges which the aristocracy held (however many bourgeoisie bought their way into nobility;
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Estates General
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a legislative assembly (see The States) of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects.
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Convention
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Frances new law making body after the attack on Tuilirie. Their first action was to dethrone the king and declare France a republic.
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San Culottes
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People who overthrew the king. They hated nobles so they wore trousers. Refused to use words that had noble connections. They addressed them as citizen or comrade instead of my lord.
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assignats
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huge amounts of paper money that had little value. the currency was suffering from inflation.
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Girondins
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held most of the posts in the government. didnt surport the killing of the king
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jacobins
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were supported by san culottes.
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Committee of Public Safety
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Setup by the convention. had twelve members that had the power to do anything they thought was neccesary. their rule was so harsh it was called the reign of terror.
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Law of Suspects
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SEpt 179 citizens made list of people they suspected of opposing the government.
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Guillotine.
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made by Doctor Guillotine. Faster and less painful way of executing. 17000 suspects were executed during reighn of terror
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Rousseau
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Rousseau contended that man was neither inherently good nor bad when in the state of nature (the state of all other animals, and the condition humankind was in before the creation of civilization and society), but is corrupted by society.
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Marat
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was in the bath because of skin disease.fatally stabbed in his bath by a Girondin supporter, Charlotte Corday; thereafter he was hailed as a martyr.
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