3.7 vocab

Maximillien Robespierre

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

Marseillaise

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

Assignats

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

Marie Antoinette

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

"liberty caps"/Tricolor

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

La Marseilles

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

Émigré

to migrate out of a place

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

Jacobin

a member of a radical political club during the French Revolution

Suffrage

right to vote

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

Guillotine

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

Nationalism

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