French Revolution
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- Absolutism
- having absolute power
- Age of Absolutism began
- 1661
- Balance of Power
- several nations combined their power to equal the power of another
- Bourgeoisie
- middle class with wealth but no political power
- chief ministers of Louis XIII
- Cardinal Bichelieu and Cardinal Marazin
- Declaration if the Rights of Man
- August 27, 1789
- Divine Rights of Kings
- belief that god placed him in this post and is answerable to no one but God
- Edict of Nantes passed
- 1598
- Edict of Nantes revoked
- 1685
- Emigres
- nobility that fled France
- First French Constitution
- Declaration if the Rights of Man
- Group called to Versailles in May of 1789
- Estates General
- Group created when the Third Estate withdrew from the Estates General
- National Assembly
- Group that pledged the Tennis Court Oath
- National Assembly
- Henry IV's chief minister
- Duke of Sully
- Henry IV's name before becoming king
- Henry Bourbon
- L'etat c'est moi
- I am the State (France)
- Louis XIV died
- 1714
- Louis XIV financial advisor
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- Louis XIV military advisor
- Francois Louvois
- Louis XVI was charged with and found guilty of this crime
- treason
- National Convention
- 1792-1795
- Old Regime
- period in France before 1789, outdated and unrealistic, serious social, political, and economic problems
- Provosional Government
- temporary government, in Paris, support of about 97% of the population
- Regent
- one who acts as king until the true king is of age
- Storming of the Bastille
- July 14, 1789
- Three branches of government created by the Constitution of 1791
- legislative executive judicial
- Three causes for the French Revolution
- Bourgeoisie unrest, social structure, financial dificulties
- Treaty concluding War of Spanish Succession
- Treaty of Urecht
- Two European Nations that had absolute monarchs
- Prussia and Russia
- Two major political groups in the Legislative Assembly
- Moderate Revolutionaries Radical Revolutionaries
- Two provisions of the Edict of Nantes
- freedom of religion freedom to hold public office allowed to fortify themselves
- Two reasons for decline of France during the reign of Louis XVI
- spending too much money revocation of the Edict of Nantes too many wars
- Tyrannical leader of the Reign of Terror
- Robespierre
- War of Spanish Succession
- 1701-1713
- Wife of Louis XVI
- Marie Antoinette