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Maximillien Robespierre

Leader of the committee of Public Safety during the regin of terror

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Marseillaise

French Port city that was marched upon while patriotic songs were being chanted

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Assignats

Paper money used by the National Assembly from 1789-1796.

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Marie Antoinette

Wife of King louis XVI who was beheaded on October 16,1793

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"liberty caps"/Tricolor

A badge that was worn by many of the revolutionists which later became the french flag

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La Marseilles

The battle chant that later became the name of the french national anthem

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Émigré

to migrate out of a place

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Sans-culottes

members of the working class who made the French Revolution more radical; called such because men wore long trousers instead of the fancy knee breeches that the upper class wore

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Jacobin

a member of a radical political club during the French Revolution

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Suffrage

right to vote

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Reign of Terror

time period during the French Revolution from September 1793 to July 1794 when people in France were arrested for not supporting the revolution and many were executed

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Guillotine

A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.

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Nationalism

a strong feeling of pride and devotion to one's country

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