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17 Cards in this Set
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Commander of New National Guard
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Marquis de Lafayette
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- hero of the American War of Independence
- noble deputy in the National Assembly - Commander of New National Guard |
Marquis de Lafayette
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Fall of Bastille
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Armed crowd marched on the Bastille, the fortified prison that symbolized royal authority, 100 armed citizens died and prison official surrendered, angry crowd shot and stabbed the governor of the prison and flaunted his head on a pike.
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Great Fear
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the term used by historians to describe the rural panic
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Estates General consisted of how many estates
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3
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First Estate
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Deputies represented some 100,000 clergy of the Catholic church, which owned about 10% of the land and collected its own taxes on peasants.
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Second Estate
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deputies represented the nobility, about 400,000 men and women who owned about 25% of the land and collected seigneurial dues and rents from their peasant tenants.
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Third Estate
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deputies represented everyone else, at least 95% of the nation.
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Austrian emperor who abolished torture, decreed toleration for Jews and Protestants and suppressed monasteries.
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Joseph II
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Assembly of Notables
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a group of handpicked nobles, clergyman and officials
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Napolean Bonaparte
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remarkable young general from Corsica, an island off Italy, who brought France more wars, more conquests and a form of military dictatorship.
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Most famous French Revolution slogan
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Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
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sans-culottes
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"without breeches" - because men who worked with their hands wore long trousers rather than the knee breeches of the upper classes - ordinary people of Paris
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Jacobin Club
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first and most influential political club, named after the former monastery in Paris where the club first met
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La Marsellaise
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new national athem - named after the soldiers from teh city of Marseille who first sang it.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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preamble to the constitution
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Olympe de Gouges
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Declaration of the Rights of Women of 1791, played on language of the official Declaration to make the point that women should also be included.
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