aice euro quiz 9/5

Ancient regime

Old french system with king nobles and clergy

Sovereignty

Highest power to rule or make laws

Enlightenment

Ideas about reason,rights,freedom

Cahiers de dolances

List of complaints people wrote to the king

Emigres

Nobles/people that left France during the revolution

Louis XVI

King of France is executed in 1793

Marie Antoinette

Auntralian princes who married king Louis XVI executed 1793

Jaques Necker

Finance minister tried to fix France’s debt

Georges Danton

Revolutionary leader power speaker

Maximilien robespierre

Radical leader of the reign of terror

Tennis court oath

(June 20)-pledge by the third estate to make new constitution

Estates system

France’s 3 social groups, clergy Noble,everyone else

Montesquieu

Enlightenment thinkers belived in separation of power

Constitutional monarchy

Kings power limited by law/constitution

Declaration of the rights of man

Document sayijg all men have equal rights and freedoms

Parlements

French law courts run by nobles blocked reforms 1789

August decrees

Laws ending feudal rights and privileges

Storming bastille

(July 14) people seized in prison symbol of royal power start of revolution

Absolute monarchy

King has total power no limits

Feudalism

Old system where peasants worked land for nobles in return for protection