European History French Revolutions short 1
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- Duc D'Orleans
- led 47 nobles to join 3rd estate
- Bailly
- President of 3rd Estate; led Tennis Court Oath; 1st Mayor o' Paris
- Comte de Mirabeau
- Wrote against Lettres de Cachet; leading guy in 3rd Estate
- National Guard
- Army o' National Assembly
- letttres de cachet
- letter signed by king, puts anybody in jail w/ no trial.
- Marquis de Launay
- Governor o' Bastille; nobody listened to his surrender; head on a stick
- Bastille
- people thought it was a torture center; symbol o' evil ancien regime. Not a torture center anymore though-- one o' the better prisons in France at the time.
- ancien regime
- the oppressive, unfair class structure of France before the Revolution
- Hulin
- led march on Bastille
- Vanquer de la Bastille
- one o' 954 people who stormed Bastille; treated as heroes
- Estates General meeting
- showed how crappy ancien regime was; 3rd estate treated rudely
- National Assembly
- 3rd estate said "we're 96% of the country, so we represent it" & changed their name to show that.
- Tennis Court Oath
- I will meet until a new constitution is written fo' France