CH 6: French Revolution

sans cullotes

The workers of the Third Estate, meaning "without knee breeches"

Bourgeoisie

City-dwelling merchants, factory owners, and professionals

Coup d'etat

A sudden overthrow of the government by a small group

Continental System

Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and Europe

Czar Alexander I

Russian ruler during Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia

indemnity

a payment for damage or loss

Elba

First island Napoleon was exiled to

Napoleonic Code

Eliminated many injustices in French law but also promoted order and authority over individual rights

plebiscite

vote that made France an empire in 1804

First Estate

Roman Catholic clergy

Second Estate

Nobility

nationalism

Sense of patriotism and unity as a people

the Storming of the Bastille

Symbolic event of the French Revolution when the Third Estate sacked the Bastille

guillotine

used for executions

Great Britain

France's greatest enemy during the Napoleonic Wars

the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Guaranteed freedom of speech, the press, and religion