Unit 5 Extra Knowledge

Maximillian Robespierre

Head of the Committee of Public Safety, advocated equal rights for man.

Queen Marie Antoniette

Last queen of France, wife of Louis XVI.

Napoleon’s birthplace

Cisnora.

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Led the Haitian revolution.

Abdicate

(of a monarch) renounce one's throne.

Elba

Napoleon’s first island exile, he escaped from here.

Napoleon's greatest ally who became his greatest foe

Tsar Alexander I.

Guillotine

Killing device that decapitated people.

King of France when the Revolution began

Louis XVI.

Dr Marat

Journalist during the revolution, very bloodthirsty, was very sick.

St Helena

Napoleon’s final exile.

Country that led to Napoleon’s destruction

UK.

Jacques Necker

Louis XVI financial minister.

Conservatism

The holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.

Nationalism

Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.