History Radical Rev-Napoleon Review

Ancien Régime

The “old way” of doing things, aka the monarchy

Confiscation of Church property

After the signing of the constitution, church property was taken and sold

Constitution of 1791 (Constitutional Monarchy)

Constitution signed after the women’s march that guaranteed a constitutional govt but there was still a monarchy

Danton

Robespierre’s old partner (revolutionary fig) who handled foreign affairs but was eventually executed because he didn’t agree with what Robespierre was doing (Reign of Terror, executions)

Declaration of the Rights of Man

A declaration similar to the Dec of Independence that affirmed all people’s natural rights, the people had to force the king to sign it

Directory

A short-lived, corrupted government that had control between the radical revolution and Napoleon’s coup

Execution of the King

The decision to execute the king via guillotine was made by the Jacobins

King’s escape attempt (Flight to Varennes)

Louis XVI and his family tried to escape to Varennes, Austria but they were caught and people felt like they were traitors

Louis XVI

The indecisive, cowardly king who was attacked by Parisian women and eventually was beheaded by the Jacobins, married to Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Austrian queen of France and wife of Louis XVI, spent a lot of money, outlived her husband but eventually beheaded

Meeting of the Estates-General

A meeting that Louis XVI called to address debt in which each estate got one vote, regardless of population, which was unfair

Napoleon

Former military commander who led a coup d’etat, overthrew the corrupted Directory, seized power, conquered most of Europe, turned it into an empire with himself as emperor, was defeated in his Russian campaign and again in the Battle of Waterloo, empire fell after ≈10 years

National Assembly (which then became the Legislative Assembly)

The third estate’s convention (did it actually decide anything?) that later became an official convention

National Convention

A government created when the monarchy was destroyed, ruled by radicals like Robespierre

Olympe de Gouges

Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen

Republic

A system of government in which the common people make decisions through elected representatives

Republic of Virtue

The Republic that Robespierre said would come when all enemies were eradicated, used as an excuse for the Righn of Terror

Storming of the Bastille

When 3rd estate people tore down Bastille and took the ammunition

Tennis Court Oath

An oath that 3rd estate people took to create a new constitution, they did it in a tennis court where they were told to wait for a meeting to begin but were actually ambushed in the tennis court after being locked out of the meeting hall