TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

ancien regime Louis XV parlement

Maupeou Louis XVI Marie Antoinette

War of American Independence Royal General Farms Turgot

Necker Calonne Assembly of Notables

de Brienne Estates-General Third Estate

Alexander I Sieyès Mirabeau

National Assembly Oath of the Tennis Court Bastille

National Guard Lafayette Night of 4 August

départements Pius VI emigres

Civil Constitution of the Clergy nonjuring priests Olympe de Gouges

Constitution of 1791 taille assignats

Convention Seven Years’ War Treaty of Paris (1763)

Toussaint L'Ouverture sans-culottes Jacobins

Girondins Plain Mountain

Legislative Assembly Robespierre Danton

Committee of Public Safety guillotine Directory

Cult of the Supreme Being Thermidorian Reaction Napoleon

First Consul Concordat of 1801 Friedland

Continental System Napoleonic Code Peninsular War

Battle of Nations Waterloo cahiers de doleance

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen gabelle

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Elba St. Helena Haiti

Westphalia Corsica Vendée

Varennes Metz

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

1. Which attributes of France’s old regime were demolished by the Revolution? Which endured?

2. What was the social composition of the groups that participated in the French Revolution? Was the Revolution primarily the product of a single class or of the French people as a whole?

3. Compare the first and second phases of the French Revolution. How were the seeds of radical political change sown in the first phase?

4. Given the numerous foreign and domestic challenges that France faced in the spring of 1793, was the Reign of Terror politically justifiable? If not, why not?

5. Given the revolution's desire to establish liberty, equality, and fraternity for all men, why were the revolutionaries so reluctant to give women the same privileges?

6. Did Napoleon further the accomplishments of the French Revolution? Or did he subvert or pervert them?