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| was King of France from 1774 until his deposition in 1792, although his formal title after 1791 was King of the French. He was executed during the French Revolution. |
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| Most commonly known as the Abbé Sieyès, was a French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman and political writer. |
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| Born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. |
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| Was a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. |
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| Was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. |
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| was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and its associated wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. |
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| Was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789. |
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| Born an Archduchess of Austria, was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1792. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. |
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| Was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought for the United States in the American Revolutionary War. |
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| Was a physician, political theorist and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. |
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| Was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. |
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| Was a British soldier and statesman, a native of Ireland from the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. |
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| Was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. He was noted for his inspirational leadership and superb grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics |
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| Was the monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the later 18th century |
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| Was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate). |
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| Was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. |
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| Was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; |
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| That evening, mobs stormed the Paris Arsenal and another armory and acquired thousands of muskets. At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets, swords, and various makeshift weapons began to gather around the Bastille. |
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| Was a general panic that occurred between 17 July and 3 August 1789 at the start of the French Revolution. |
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| The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man |
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| Passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights. |
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| Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
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| Was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government. |
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| Was a single-chamber assembly in France from 21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire IV under the Convention's adopted calendar) during the French Revolution. |
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| Were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime |
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| Was used to describe members of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that had been the most famous political club of the French Revolution |
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| Were a political faction in France in 1792–93 within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution |
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| Was a period in French history (1791-1794) marked by the ascendancy of Maximilien Robespierre. Many proponents of the Republic of Virtue developed their notion of civic virtue from the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). |
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| Was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins |
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| The notorious killing machine of the French Revolution, was used to behead thousands, including King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| Created in March 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), a stage of the French Revolution. |
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| Was a form of deism established in France by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution. It was intended to become the state religion of the new French Republic. |
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| Resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the Reign of Terror in France. |
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| Was the government of France during the penultimate stage of the French Revolution. Administered by a collective leadership of five directors, it operated following the Committee of Public Safety and preceding the Consulate. |
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| Also known as a coup, a putsch, or an overthrow, is the sudden and illegal seizure of a government |
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| The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. |
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| Was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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| Sought national reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics and solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France, with most of its civil status restored. |
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| Were the lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three Estates in France, between March and April 1789, the year in which the French Revolution began. |
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| Unpaid labour imposed by the state on certain classes of people, such as peasants, for the performance of work on public projects. |
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| Type of flag or banner design with a triband design which originated in the 16th century as a symbol of republicanism, liberty or indeed revolution. |
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| Were issued after the confiscation of church properties in 1790 because the government was bankrupt |
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| Was a French militia which existed from 1789 until 1872, including a period of official disbandment from 1827 to 1830 |
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| The concept originated as a French term for mass conscription during the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly for the one from 16 August 1793. |
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| It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting. |
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| Was a political group during the French Revolution whose members, called Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the Assembly. They were the most radical group and opposed the Girondists. |
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| Was the name given to the Moderate party, in the French National Convention during the French Revolution. They sat between the Girondists on the Right and, The Mountain or Jacobin party on the left. |
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| The government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. |
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| Were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire led by Emperor Napoleon I against an array of European powers formed into various coalitions. |
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| The direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution. |
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| A military strategy which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area. |
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| A major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. |
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| Napoleon and 18 Fructidor |
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| Was a seizure of power by members of the French Directory on 4 September 1797 when their opponents, the Royalists, were gaining strength. |
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| The second war on revolutionary France by the conservative European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal and Naples. Their goal was to contain republican France. |
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| Battles of Jena and Austerlitz |
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| Were fought on 14 October 1806 on the plateau west of the river Saale in today's Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia. |
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| Were two agreements signed by Napoleon I of France in the town of Tilsit in July, 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland. |
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| Spanish rebellion and Joseph Bonaparte |
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| Was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily (1806–1808), and later King of Spain (1808–1813, as José I). |
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| Napoleon's invasion of Russia |
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| Began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. |
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| Russian "scorched earth" policy |
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| It was most famously used by Joseph Stalin against the German Army in the Second World War |
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| Was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815. |
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| Was a treaty signed in Paris on 20 November 1815 by the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. |
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| Metternich took a prominent part in the Congress of Vienna and dominated European politics from 1814 to 1848 |
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| By the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden led by the Russian Tsar Alexander I and prince Schwarzenberg decisively defeated the French army of Napoleon I |
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| Restoration of the Bourbon Monarch |
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| Was the period of French history following the fall of Napoleon in 1814 until the July Revolution of 1830. |
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| Was a German philosopher who was a major figure in German idealism. |
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