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Key words

5.1 Problems in France

Third estate: every French citizen who did not possess a noble title or was not a clergyman Bourgeoisie: professional people in the third estate, such as doctors, lawyers and townsmen of the guilds

Estates-General: a meeting in which representatives of the three estates together discussed important matters

5.2 French Revolution I

Revolution: a change from one - often political

- system to another, in a relatively short period of time

National Assembly: in 1789, a meeting was established by disappointed members of the third estate; several members of the lower nobility and clergy also joined

Tennis Court Oath: a pledge of the third estate and it's sympathisers not to break-up the National Assembly until a new constitution for France had been written

National Guard: an army formed by the French people that eventually stormed the Bastille in Paris

The Bastille: a state prison where the government also stored ammunition

The Great Fear: a revolt from peasants against their landlords on the countryside

Ancien Régime: a period of time in which the French king had absolute power

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: in 1789, a declaration was written by the National Assembly, stating that everyone is born free and is equal in the eyes of the law

5.3 French Revolution II

March on Versailles: in October 1789, thousands of angry people went to the Palace of Versailles for a violent confrontation with the Royal court Reign of Terror: a period of violence in French Revolution marked by mass executions using the guillotine

Jacobines: a political group that dominated the National Assembly and started the Reign of Terror; Robespierre was one of them Guillotine: a quick method of execution by beheading

Directoire: a committee which governed France after the Reign of Terror

First Coalition War: a military conflict between France and European countries that did not agree with the French Revolution