Ch. 19 History
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- Parlement
- Supreme court of the ancien régime in France.
- Assembly of Notables
- An assembly organized by Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the minister of finance of France.
- Estates General
- The representative assembly of the three “estates†of France.
- Cahiers de doleances
- List of grievances which was to be presented to Louis XVI.
- Abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
- A Catholic priest, he rose to become chancellor of the diocese of Chartres in 1788.
- National Assembly
- The revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate.
- Tennis Court Oath
- Oath taken by deputies of the Third Estate at a nearby tennis court when they were locked out of their meeting hall at Versailles.
- Olympe de Gouges
- She demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves.
- Women’s March to Versailles
- Women marching to demand food from the King and Queen.
- assignats
- Issued as paper currency in France (1789–1796) by the revolutionary government and secured by confiscated lands.
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Act passed by the National Assembly during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic church in France to the state.
- Legislative Assembly
- Persons who make or amend or repeal laws.
- Declaration of Pillnitz
- This declaration was intended to warn the French revolutionaries not to infringe further on the rights of Louis XVI.
- Paris Commune
- Established in the Hôtel de Ville, it became insurrectionary.
- Sans-culottes
- The term applied to the sectionary “elites†in Paris connected with the Jacobins.
- National Convention
- Comprising 749 deputies elected after the overthrow of the monarchy, it sought to provide a new constitution for France.
- Committee of Public Safety
- Political body of the French Revolution that controlled France during the Reign of Terror
- The Vendee
- A département in west central France, on the Atlantic's Bay of Biscay.
- Republic of Virtue
- a speech given by Maximilien Robespierre. In it, he provided a statement of his political theory.
- Maximillian Robespierre
- French revolutionary leader during the Reign of Terror
- Thermidorian Reaction
- Revolt in the French Revolution against the Reign of Terror that was initiated on 9 Thermidor (July 27).
- The Directory
- Held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. Five Directors shared power.
- Concordat of 1801
- Agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII that defined the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France.
- Civil Code
- The French Napoleonic code.
- Prefects
- The State's representative in a région (préfet de région) or département.
- Germaine de Stael
- French writer, literary patron, and critic who introduced romanticism to French literature in On Germany.
- Treaty of Amiens
- Agreement signed at Amiens, France, by Britain, France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic (The Netherlands).
- The Third Coalition
- This was the first of five coalitions against Napoleon and his empire.
- Battle of Trafalgar
- Naval engagement in the Napoleonic Wars that established British naval supremacy in Europe.
- Continental System
- The blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Britain through the destruction of British commerce.
- Hegemony
- The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
- Nationalism
- Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.
- Elba
- Island of Italy between Corsica and the mainland. Napoleon spent his first period of exile here.