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The Old Regime
In general the Old Regime was a way to class people into 3 estates. The first and smallest estate consisted of the clergy and the royal family. The second estate consisted of nobles -this did not include wealthy citizens or renowed writers of philosphes or anyone of the kind. Lastly, the third and largest estate consisted of the normal citizens, peasants, and slaves. -
King Louis and Marie
The HATED monarchs of France during the french revoluion. They were eventually executed. -
Estates-General
After a huge amount of tension and threats from the third estate, King Louis finally called the estates general, which allows all estates to discuss and vote on issues concerning the estates. However, even with less people than the third estate, the first and second estates still held most of the power -
National Assembly
When the first an second estate would not listen to them, the third estate stormed out of the estates general and formed their own representation of the people. This was called the National Assembly -
Fall of Bastille
Threatened by the kings order to send 20,000 soldiers to Versailles the townspeople, as well as the bourgeois attacked and brought down paris's number one symbol of power in paris; The Bastille fortress -
Bourgeois
wealthy upper class that assisted the third estate in the revolution -
Paris Commune
After King Louis pulled back the soldiers after the fall of Bastille members of the first and second estates went to the National Assembly and established a new city government called the Paris Commune -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
After the ending the Old Regime the National Assembly drafted a document that secured the rights of man and citizen -
Jacobin Club
A group that suppotted the revolution and who's radical leaders took most power starting in 1792 this group is also responsible for the Terror -
National Convention
After removing the king from power the Jacobins ordered and election for new legistaltive body for the people called the National Convention -
Guillotine- King louis
King louis is executed by a new machine that beheaded the criminal with no pain; the Guillotine -
The Terror
a period of time where over 40,000 people were executed by the guillotine and many more by other various ways -
Maximilien Robespierre
Ruthless laywer/leader of the jacobian club that sent anyone he believed to be an enemy to the revolution to the guillotine. Eventually the National Convention turned against him and he was sent to the guillotine -
Directory
A five-man executive board eastablished in 1795 by the national convention that governed the peoplw along with them
