Nangle French Revolution Vocab
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- Old Regime
- The Political and Social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
- Dauphine
- Title given to kings oldest son
- Divine Right Kings
- Idea that god decides who is king
- Estates General
- An assembly of representatives from all 3 of the estates or social classes
- Rights of Man
- The ideas behind French Revolution and the rights men have written by thomas paine
- Marie Antoinette
- Queen of France, From Austria, very spoiled and unexperiecned leader
- Tennis Court Oath
- A pledge by the members of Frances assembly who vowed to meet until they made a new constitution
- Republic
- Representative government choosen by the people
- Versailles
- Palace in Paris
- Louis XVI
- King of France married to Marie Antoinette was king during revolution
- Absolutism
- A form of absolute monarchy
- National Assembly
- French Congress established by the third estate, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the french people
- Bastille
- Paris Prison
- Coup d'etat
- A sudden seizure of political power in a nation