French Revolution & Age of Napoleon: Study Guide
Be able to identify the following people, events, and terms. For events, you do not need to know the exact
date of each event, but you should know the order of events (for example: you should know that the fall of
the Bastille was shortly followed by the Great Fear and that they happened during the Moderate Phase of
the Revolution).
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Ancien régime
3 Estates
Bourgeoisie
Deficit spending
Estates-General
Cahiers
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Bastille Day
“Great Fear”
August 4th Decrees
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Constitution of 1791
Legislative Assembly
Émigrés
Brunswick Manifesto
Sans-culottes
Jacobins
Radical
Girondins
“September massacres”
National Convention
Committee of Public Safety
Levée en masse
Maximilien Robespierre
Jean Paul Marat
Reign of Terror
Guillotine
Directory
Cult of the Supreme Being
Civic Virtue
Napoleon Bonaparte
Josephine
Coup d’etat
Concordat
Napoleonic Code
Continental System
Peninsular War
Guerilla Warfare
Russian Campaign
Elba
Congress of Vienna