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French Revolution
Radical, Directory, and Napoleonic Eras
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9th Grade
01/14/2015

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Jean-Paul Marat
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Famous writer of L'Ami du Peuple, urged the revolution and the executions on. When killed, became almost a saint to be worshipped
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Girondins
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A member of the French moderate republican party in power 1791–93 during the French Revolution, so called because the party leaders were the deputies from the department of the Gironde.
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Sans-culottes
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A lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution.
An extreme republican or revolutionary. "Without Socks"
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L'Ami de Peuple
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Newspaper written by Jean-Paul Marat, was the main source of information for the revolutionaries and dictated many attacks and executions
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Promoted dechristianization, the "Voice of the Revolution", led revolution, used terror to promote change, "Lost it" during the Festival of the Supreme being in which he portrayed himself as the supreme being
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National Convention
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A single-chamber assembly in France from 21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 during the dechristianization period. Governing body of France after the disbanding of the Constitution of 1791, abolished monarchy
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Georges Danton
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A leading figure in the early stages of the Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. Wanted to end terror and opposed Robespierre, was executed for those reasons
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Dr. Joseph Guillotin
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Inventor of the Guillotine
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The French Republic
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Created by the new constitution, gave citizens basic rights and defined France as a Republic not a monarchy
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Jacobins
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A member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4
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Reign of Terror
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Robespierre's period of dictatorship in France
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Dechristianization
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Removing Christian influences or characteristics from France, anything dealing with the church was changed or destroyed, including the calendar
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Committee of Public Safety
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Lead by Robespierre, protected the revolution from anti-revolutionaries
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Constitution of 1795
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Established the directory
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Directory
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Executive body of 5 men that governed France, brought Napoleon to be general of the French army
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Congress of Vienna
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Territories left over from Napoleon's conquers were redivided back into Europe
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Continental System
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The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of Napoleon in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Blockade against Britan to make continental Europe more sufficient
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Concordat of 1801
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It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status.
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Napoleonic Code
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Laws and considered to be a reform -> laws, apply to everybody but the monarch,
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Accepted Enlightenment ideals and rejects Made france a dominant power, 1st consul, emperor, crowned himself, absolute ruler, great military leader, popular
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Waterloo
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Ended Napoleons power, last stand, defeated by the British and the Prussians
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The Grand Empire
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All of Napoleon's achievements and land
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Consulate
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The government of the French republic, governed by consuls (the three chief leaders of the republic)
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Blockade
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Sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
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Concert of Europe
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Also known as the Congress System after the Congress of Vienna, represented the balance of power that existed in Europe from the end of the Napoleonic Wars
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