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| Left: Socialist Party Center: The MoDem Right: Union for a Popular Movement |
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| Person of inherited noble rank |
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| Theory that a nation's wealth is its gold and silver, to be amassed by government controls on the economy |
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| 18th century philosophical movement advocating reason and tolerance |
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| Rousseau's theory of what the whole community wants |
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| French for old regime, the monarchy that preceded the Revolution |
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| Largest chamber of Estates general, representing commoners |
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| Month when Robespierre fell, a calming down after a revolutionary high |
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| Old and nearly unused Paris jail, the storming of which heralded the French Revolution in 1789 |
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| Sudden and complete overthrow of a regime |
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| 1789 popular ouster of monarch |
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| Robespierre's 1793-1794 rule by guillotine |
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| Coercive rule, usually by one person |
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| Referendum; mass vote for issue rather than for candidates |
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| After Napoleonic solder named Chauvin; fervent, prideful nationalism |
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| French dynasty before the Revolution |
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| Take over of Paris government by citizens during German siege of 1870-1871 |
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| "Beautiful epoch" France around 1900 |
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| Jewish nationalist movement that founded Israel |
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| France's democratic regime from 1871-1940 |
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| seeking to go back to old ways; extremely conservative |
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| Supposedly unbreachable French defenses facing Germany during WWII |
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| Nazi Puppet regime that ran France during WWII |
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| coalition government of all leftist and liberal parties in France and Spain in 1930s |
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| WWII French underground antiGerman movement |
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| WWII anti-axis military coalition |
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| Government inability to solve big problems |
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| granting of independence to colonies |
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| First Vietnam war, 1946-1954, between French and Communist Viet Minh |
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| French for Prime Minister |
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| Elected head of state, not necessarily powerful |
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| Multiparty alliance to form government |
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| system with features of both presidential and par systems |
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| Semipresidential regime devise by de Gaull, 1958 to present |
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| Legislative condemnation of executive |
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| Percentage of those eligible who vote in a given election |
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| Chirac's revival of Guallist party, now called Union for a popular movement |
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| French president forced to name premier of opposing party |
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| Member of French and many other parliaments |
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| In Europe, department in charge of homeland security and national police |
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| Official, usually, unelected, who governs by virtue of economic skills |
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| Paris house of French National Assembly |
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| System that centralizes power in the capital with little autonomy for component areas |
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| First-order civil division |
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| Main territorial units within countries such as departments in France |
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| Department, French first-order civil division, equivalent to British county |
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| French anti-immigrant party |
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