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.
~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.