**Annate-**A year’s revenue paid to the Pope on the appointment of a new bishop or cleric. Appel Nominal-

**Avignon-**Territory controlled by the Pope in southern France. Biens Nationaux-

***Cadastre-***The official system of land registration in France. Don Gratuit-

***Enrages-***Extreme radical urban revolutionaries.
***Federes-***Volunteer troops of National Guard from the provinces who came to Paris for training. Feuillant-

Gabelle-

Gardes-Francaises-

Gendarmes-
**Girondins-**Deputies from the Bordeaux area who sat in the Legislative Assembly; they were

associated with the war and moderate revolutionary policies.

Indulgents-

The process by which each deputy was required to declare publicly his decision on

the guilt or innocence of Louis XVI.

under the Ancien Regime.

Literally “the nations assets”; a term used of the land seized from the Church and

emigres and sold by the state.

A “voluntary gift”, used of the money paid to the State by the Church of pays d’état

A moderate revolutionary that emerged during the French Revolution. It consisted of

monarchists and reactionaries who sat on the right of the Legislative Assembly of 1791 and was

founded after the Champ de Mars massacre.

A very unpopular tax on salt in France that was established during the mid-14th century

and lasted, with brief lapses and revisions, until 1946.

An elite royal infantry regiment, many of whom deserted to join opponents of

the King in July 1789.

a police force.

An organisation set up by the National Assembly in December 1790, which operated as

Followers of Danton; Jacobins accused of undue leniency towards counter-

revolutionaries.

Jacobin-

A member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most

radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in

association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.

**Juring Priest-**A priest who took the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Law of Prairial-

Law of Suspects- Law of Ventose- Levée en Masse- Montagnards- National Guard-

Noblesse d’epee-

.

The most severe of the laws passed by the revolutionary government. The purpose

of the law was to reform the Revolutionary Tribunal to secure more convictions. The law paved the

way for the Great Terror.

Anyone suspected of counter-revolutionary activity and undermining the Republic

could be arrested and held without trial indefinitely.

Property of those recognised as enemies of the Revolution could be seized and

distributed amongst the poor.

The policy of military conscription adopted in the aftermath of the French

Revolution of 1789.

A political group that sat on the highest benches in the National Convention, opposed

the Girondins and supported the radical policies of Robespierre

Formed as a volunteer militia group in Paris in 1789, and united with groups across

France in 1790 under Lafayette; in 1792, with admission of federes, it became a more radical

revolutionary force.

A member of the old “blue-blooded’ nobility that carried the right to wear a

sword; a member of the second estate in the Ancien Regime.

**Refractory Priests-**A cleric who refused to take the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. **Venality-**The condition or quality of being venal (willing to sell one’s influence especially in return

for a bribe); openness to bribery or corruption.
**Vendee-**An area of south-west France noted for its counter-revolutionary activities.