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| Ancien Régime refers primarily to the aristocratic system that characterized French society and politics established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties from the 14th century to the 18th century. It was overthrown by the French Revolution. |
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| A particular class or category of people in society |
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| king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715) |
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| (1755–93), French queen; wife of Louis XVI. A daughter of Maria Theresa, she married the future Louis XVI of France in 1770. Her extravagant lifestyle led to widespread unpopularity and, like her husband, she was executed during the French Revolution |
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| The elected legislature in France during the first part of the French Revolution, 1789–91 |
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| was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the Third Estate during a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court. |
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| A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. |
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| was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention. |
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| refers to a person who has "migrated out," but often carries a connotation of politico-social self-exile. |
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| A lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution |
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| 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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| the former king walked with calm dignity up the steps of the scaffold to be beheaded by a machine. |
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| Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. |
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| A period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular (Reign of Terror), the period of the Terror during the French Revolution |
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