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| (Old Regime); France prior to the French Revolution |
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| Fees that peasants were obligated to pay landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop and winepress |
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| The political prison and armory stormed on July 14, 1789, by Parisian city workers alarmed by the king's concentration of troops at Versailles |
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| List of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789 |
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| A head or poll tax paid for each person |
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| The codification and condensation of laws assuring legal equality and uniformity in France |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France, conducted foreign policy, and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795 |
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| Napoleon's arrangement with Pope Pius VII to heal religious division in France with a united Catholic church under bishops appointed by the government |
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| Napoleon's efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding importation of British goods into Europe |
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| Roadwork; an obligation of peasants to landowners |
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| Sudden overthrow of those in power, usually enacted with military force |
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| Declaration of Pillnitz (1791) |
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| 1791; Austria and Prussia agreed to intervene in France to end the revolution with the unanimous agreement of the great powers |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) |
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| August 27, 1789; Document that embodied the liberal revolutionary ideals and general principles of the philosophes' writings |
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| 1795-1799; The five-man executive committee that ruled France in its own interests as a republic after Robespierre's execution and prior to Napoleon's coming to power |
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| The French national assembly summoned in 1789 by Louis XVI to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancient regime. |
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| The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives |
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| The dominant group in the National Convention in 1793 led by Robespierre who replaced the Girondists |
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| The fixing of prices on bread and other essentials under Robespierre's rule |
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| The creation under the Jacobins, of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare |
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| Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
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| (1769-1821); Consul and later emperor of the French (1799-1815), who established several of the reforms of the French Revolution during his dictatorial rule |
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| Date of the declaration by liberal noblemen of the National Assembly at a secret meeting to abolish the feudal regime in France |
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| Law court staffed by nobles that could register or refuse to register a king's edict |
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| Peninsular War (1808-1813) |
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| 1808-1813; Napoleon's long-drawn-out war with Spain |
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| 1758-1794; Jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794) |
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| A reference to Parisian workers who wore loose-fitting trousers rather than the tight-fitting breeches worn by aristocratic men |
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| A tax levied on the value of a peasant's land or wealth |
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| Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789) |
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| June 20, 1789; Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France |
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| 1807; Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces |
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| A tax on income paid chiefly by peasants |
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