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| -Fees that peasants were obligated to pay landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop and winepress |
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| -The political prison and armory stormed on July 14, 1789, by Parisian city workers alarmed by the king's concentration of troops at Versailles |
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| -List of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789. |
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| -The codification and condensation of laws assuring legal equality and uniformity in France |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| -The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France, conducted foreign policy, and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. |
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| -Napoleon's arrangement with Pope Plus VII to heal religious division in France with a united Catholic church under bishops appointed by the government. |
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| -Napoleon's efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding Importation of British goods Into Europe. |
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| -Roadwork; an obligation of peasants to landowners. |
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| -Overthrow of those in power. |
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| Declaration of Pillnitz (1791) |
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| -Austria and Prussia agreed to intervene in France to end the revolution with the unanimous agreement of the great powers. |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (August 27, 1789) |
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| -Document that embodied the liberal revolutionary Ideals and general principles of the philosophes' writings. |
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| -The five-man executive committee that ruled France in its own interests as a republic after Robespierre's execution and prior to Napoleon's coming to power. |
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| -The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime. |
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| -The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives. |
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| -The dominant group In the National Convention in 1793 who replaced the Girondist. It was headed by Robespierre. |
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| -The fixing of prices on bread and other essentials under Robespierre's rule. |
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| -The creation under the Jacobins, of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare. |
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| Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
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| -Consul and later emperor of France (1799-1815), who established several of the reforms (Code Napoleon) of the French Revolution during his dictatorial rule. |
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| -date of the declaration by liberal noblemen of the National Assembly at a secret meeting to abolish the feudal regime in France. |
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| -Law court staffed by nobles that could register or refuse to register a king's edict. |
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| Peninsular War (1808-1813) |
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| -Napoleon's long-drawn-out war with Spain. |
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| -Jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794) |
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| -A reference to Parisian workers who wore loose-fitting trousers rather than the tight-fitting breeches worn by aristocratic men. |
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| -A direct tax from which most French nobles were exempt. |
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| -Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France (June 20, 1789). |
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| -Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces. |
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| - King of France (1774-1792). In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793. |
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| queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793) |
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| The first class of French society made up of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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| The second class of French society made up of the nobility |
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| a. consisted of the Bourgeoisie and the peasantry b. 98% of the population c. paid all the taxes d. owned 55% of the land |
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| Wrote an essay called What is the 3rd estate. Argued that lower classes were more important than the nobles and the government should be responsible to the people. |
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| Led the moderates in the French Revolution, headed the national guard |
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| A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. First phase of revolution. (Liberal phase) |
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| French journalist who demanded equal rights for women |
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| Delegates in the National Convention who favored a republic but feared domination by Paris. |
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| in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners, and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end of food shortages |
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| the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed |
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| French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794) |
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| French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793) |
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| Ideal of French Revolution where all traces of the old order were wiped out |
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| the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825) |
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| Napoleon's army which was supposed to crush Russia |
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| The Quadruple Alliance met, to discuss the Balance of Power. Great Britian got to have their conquered colonies, Austria got Venetia and Lombardy and Polis lands, and Prussia and Russia were compensated. |
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| German-Austrian politician and statesman, and one of the most important diplomats of his era. He was a major figure on the negotiations leading to and at the Congress of Vienna and is considered both a paradigm of foreign policy management and a major figure on the development of diplomacy. |
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| royalist rebellion in Paris, trying to kill all revolutionaries, Napoleon first appears and says "width of a grape shot" and ends rebellion |
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| the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat |
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