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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