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Chapter 23 sec 1 &2
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01/29/2013

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Old Regime
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the social and political system of France
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estate
Definition
property or possessions.
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Louis XVI
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1754–93, king of France 1774–92
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Marie Antoinette
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1755–93, queen of France 1774–93: wife of Louis XVI.
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Estates-Geneal
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an assembly of representatives from all three estates to approve this new tax
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National Assembly
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the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General
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Tennis Court Oath
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The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789
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Great Fear
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In the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king
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Legislative Assembly
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was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution.
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emigre
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a refugee, usually royalist, who fled the French Revolution and took up residence in a foreign land
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sans culotte
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were the radical left-wing partisans of the lower classes; typically urban laborers, which dominated France
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jacobin
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political club of the French Revolution
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guillotine
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is a well known device that was used in France
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Maximilien Robespierre
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was born in Arras, in the old province of Artois, France
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Reign of Terror
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Democracy in Revolutionary France
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