Unit #4 – FRENCH REVOLUTION & NAPOLEON (1789-1815) - Vocab
LESSON #1 – CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
First Estate - .5%
Second Estate – 1.5%
Third Estate
Bourgeois
Peasants
Louis XV
Rene Maupeou
Parlement of Paris
American Revolution
Assembly of Notables
Estates General
Other words to know:
High Clergy
Low Clergy
Nobility of the Sword / Robe
Haute/Petit Bourgeois
“après moi, le deluge”
Marie Antoinette
Maria Theresa
Joseph II
“let them eat cake”
Jacues Necker
Charles Colonne
Charles de Brienne
Assembly of Clergy
George III
Lord North
LESSON #2 – EARLY CONFLICTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1790)
Estates General
Three orders
Clergy – Nobility – Commoners
Abbe Emanuel Sieyes
“What is the Third Estate”
National Assembly / National Constituent Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Poor grain harvest of 1788
July 14, 1789
Bastille
Marquis de Lafayette - National Guard
The Great Fear
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Paris Women’s march on Versailles
Constitutional Monarchy – July 1990
Olympe de Gouges - Declaration of the Rights of Women
Assignats
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Other words to know:
Cahiers de dolence
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Tricolor
Emigrees
Departments
Citizen ___
Metric System
LESSON #3 – THE REPUBLIC AND THE TERROR
Constitution of September 1791
Maximillian Robespierre (“the uncorruptable”)
Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790
Mary Wollstoncraft
Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790)
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
King and Queen arrested and returned to Paris (Flight to Verennes)
Declaration of Pillnitz
Legislative Assembly
Jacobin Club
War against Austria
First Coalition
Tuilleries
National Convention
Second Revolution
The Republic
September Massacres
Girondists
The Mountain
George Danton
The Plain
Execution of Louis XVI – Jan 21, 1793
National Convention 1793
Guillotine
Sans-Culottes
Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror
“Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice… it is, therefore, and emanation of virtue”
Dechristianization
Mobilization of French resources ( Levee en Masse )
Thermodorian Reaction
The Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Other words to know
Paris Commune
Jean-Paul Marat
Charlotte Corday
The Constitution of Year One
Republic of Virtue
Deism (Temple of Reason / Cult of the Supreme Being)
Law of 22 Prairial
White Terror
Constitution of Year Three
Royalist Coup, 1795 ( Vendémiaire Coup)
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“with a whiff of grapeshot, I dispersed the crowd”
1997 Elections and incumbent coup
Brumaire Coup, 1799
First Consul
Constitution of the Year VIII, 1799
LESSON #4 – NAPOLEON
Napoleon Bonaparte
Corsica
Artillery officer
First Consul for Life (later: First Consul for Life)
Plebiscite - 1799
Code Napoleon (Napoleonic Code) - 1804
Emigrees
Concordat [with Pope Pius VII] of 1801
Second Coalition, 1798
Lord Nelson (British) and the Battle of Trafalgar, 1804
Third Coalition, 1804
Battle of Austerlitz, 1805 (Battle of the Three Emperors)
Confederation of the Rhine, 1806
Battle of Jena, 1806
Fourth Coalition, 1806
Grand Empire
Continental System, 1807
The Third of May by Francisco Goya, 1808
Invasion of Russia, 1812
Grand Army
Exile to Elba
Louis XVIII
Napoleon’s Hundred Days
Battle of Waterloo
Exile to St. Helena
Other Words to know
Brumaire Coup
Louisiana Purchase, 1803
Emperor Napoleon
Josephine
Peninsular War, 1807 ( “Spanish Ulcer”)
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Grand Duchy of Warsaw
Princess Marie Louise, daughter of the Austrian Emperor
Destruction of Moscow, 1812
Battle of the Nations, 1814 (Battle of Leipzig)
Congress of Vienna
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