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Definitions and context for significant terms and events during the french revolution, including the rise of the commune, the use of the guillotine for executions, the constitutional convention, the committee of public safety and its leader robespierre, the reign of terror, the vendée parliaments and nationalism, the thermidorean reaction, and the establishment of the directory and napoleon bonaparte's coup d'état.
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illegal government that becomes the government in the city of Paris. Radicals are in charge of it. They called for new elections and a constitutional convention to rewrite the constitution. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 a device used to execute people by decapitating their heads. it was created as a faster method of execution because hanging was too slow. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 The Convention... a. brought Louis XVI to trial for treason and found him guilty. they executed him b. established the committee of public safety TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 a. acted as a war cabinet b. had all power in government authority c. established watch committees d. began to strike at prostitutes, criminals, and preist * they executed more than 20,000 people including Marie Antoinette TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 leader of the radical fringe (The Jacobins) during the revolution. he is the most powerful leader in revolutionary France
the period of Robespierre's rule. Luois XVI is dead leaving France with a dictatorship that has total power. The government authority is given to the Committee of Public Safety. *no one in France is safe TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 parliaments made up of more than 2,000 members. They were made up of radicals & catholics. They were eventually chained to barb where they drowned. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 pride in one's country. it begins to spread all throughout France during the rule of the radicals. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 a revolt in the French Revolution where the radical fringe of the revolution ends the reign of terror a. all the machinery of the terror is dismantled b. the committee of Pubic Safety is dismantled c. many officers and administrators of the Jacobins are arrested and executed d. all books from the period are abolished *ushers in a period of moderation TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 a new government formedafter the reign of terror that a. delt with the national debt b. formed a new type of currency for France called Franc * the government failed in 1799 due to military Coup d'etat