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- Ancien Regime
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(before 1789)
Infant deaths high
pop exploded in 1800s
rich had bad diets - Lettres de Cachet
- letters which forced anyone of the kings choice to go to prison w/out a trial.
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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(1790)
-Placed church under state rule
-led to NA forcing clergy to swear aliegence to rev. - Bastille
- a fortress which had been used as a prison
- Emigres
- Rich french who fled the country
- Jacobins
- wanted a republic
- Girondists
- powerfulgroup within jacobins
- Sans-culotte
- pariasian revolutionaries
- assignats
- bonds
- cahiers
- list of grievances that estates general would discuss
- Commune
- group of revolutionaries
- Great Fear
- a general panic caused by peasant rebellions
- Danton
- critic of new legislature
- Necker
- worked for french economy