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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.

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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.

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