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FRENCH REVOLUTION

Content: BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
HORATIO NELSON DIED DURING THIS BATTLE
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
NAPOLEON'S LAST DEFEAT CAUSING HIS EXILE FOR GOOD, 1815
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
GERMAN CITY-DWELLER
BERGER
GERMAN MAYOR
BERGERMISTER
FRENCH MIDDLE-CLASS OR CITY-DWELLER
BOURGEOISIE
THE BELIEF THAT ALL PEOPLE DESERVE THE SAME RIGHTS, THE WORD COMES FROM THOSE REVOLUTIONARY FRENCH
EGALITARIANISM
ASKED WHAT HE DID DURING THIS PERIOD IN FRANCE OF 1793 & '94, FATHER EMMANUEL SIEYES SIMPLY REPLIED, "I SURVIVED"
REIGN OF TERROR
ON JULY 14, 1789 COMMANDER BERNARD DE LAUNAY OPENED UP THE GATES OF THIS AND A MOB STORMED IN
THE BASTILLE
IN JUNE 1791, THIS KING AND HIS FAMILY TRIED TO ESCAPE FRANCE IN WHAT'S KNOWN AS THE "FLIGHT TO VARENNES"...NO GO
LOUIS XVI
THE CONSTITUTION OF 1791 DIVIDED FRANCE INTO 83 OF THESE POLITICAL UNITS THAT STILL EXIST TODAY
DEPARTMENTS
AT HER JULY 17, 1793 EXECUTION, THIS GIRONDIST SYMPATHIZER SAID, "I KILLED ONE MAN TO SAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND"
CHARLOTTE CORDAY
HIS BROTHER LUCIEN WAS PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF 500 IN THE LEGISLATURE AND HELPED HIM GAIN POWER
NAPOLEON
THE LAW THAT MADE JULY 14 A HOLIDAY ACTUALLY HONORED THAT DATE IN THIS YEAR, A YEAR LATER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
1790
DEADLY PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
REIGN OF TERROR
HANDMADE LACE WAS DEALT A NEAR DEATHBLOW BY THESE 2 REVOLUTIONS...ONE A BLOODY REVOLT ENDING THE FASHION OF LACE FOR MEN, AND ONE THAT LED TO MACHINE-MADE LACE
FRENCH REVOLUTION & INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
THOMAS PAINE WROTE "THE RIGHTS OF MAN" IN SUPPORT OF THIS FOREIGN UPHEAVAL
FRENCH REVOLUTION
CHARLOTTE CORDAY WAS EXECUTED FOR TAKING THE LIFE OF THIS FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY LEADER IN HIS BATHTUB
MARAT
JACOBINS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION PROUDLY CALLED THEMSELVES THESE, NOW DESCRIBING PEOPLE WHO USE FEAR TO PERSUADE
TERRORISTS
SHE PLOTTED AGAINST THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND GAVE MILITARY SECRETS TO HER BROTHER, LEOPOLD II
MARIE ANTOINETTE
THE COUP D'ETAT OF 9 THERMIDOR WAS PART OF THIS
FRENCH REVOLUTION
EARL "CITIZEN" STANHOPE CHAIRED A SOCIETY TO PROMOTE THIS THE YEAR BEFORE THE FRENCH ONE
A REVOLUTION
CHARLOTTE CORDAY IS "LIKE A STAR; CRUEL-LOVELY" IN THOMAS CARLYLE'S 1837 BOOK ENTITLED THIS EVENT
FRENCH REVOLUTION
DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THIS NOBLEMAN, KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WAS MADE COMMANDER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD
LAFAYETTE
IT'S THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE 3-WORD SLOGAN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION INSPIRED A SIMILAR ONE IN THIS CARIBBEAN COUNTRY IN 1791
HAITI
ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR, THE MONTH OF NIVOSE, "SNOWY", WAS FOLLOWED BY FLUVIOSE, OR THIS
"RAINY"
DICKENS' "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" IS SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THIS DECADE-LONG UPHEAVAL
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
AFTER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, BRAVE DAUGHTERS ANASTASIE & VIRGINIE JOINED HIM IN CAPTIVITY
LAFAYETTE
DURING WW II, THIS MIME CHANGED HIS SURNAME TO THAT OF A FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL
MARCEL MARCEAU
"JET" OVER TO THIS LARGEST PARIS PALACE, SITE OF THE GUILLOTINNE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
PLACE DE LA CONCORDE
THIS SYMBOL ON LOUISVILLE'S FLAG REPRESENTS FRENCH AID DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
FLEUR-DE-LIS
IN OCT. 1789, A LARGE CROWD OF WOMAN MARCHED TO VERSAILLES DEMANDING THIS FOOD STAPLE
BREAD
DESPITE DECLARING "MEN ARE BORN...WITH EQUAL RIGHTS", THE ASSEMBLY VOTED TO ALLOW THIS CONTINUE IN THE COLONIES
SLAVERY
ON FEB.28, 1791, THIS HERO OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION STOPPED A RIOT AND A PLOT TO KIDNAP THE ROYALS
LAFAYETTE
IN 1795 THERE WAS A DEBATE OVER WHAT TO MAKE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, "REVEIL DU PEUPLE" OR THIS
LA MARSEILLAISE
IN MARCH 1790, ROBESPIERRE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THIS POWERFUL POLITICAL "CLUB"
JACOBINS
ON SEPT 21, 1792 THE MONARCHY WAS ABOLISHED: 4 MONTHS LATER, THIS KING WAS GUILLOTINED
LOUIS XVI
THIS DOCUMENT APPROVED ON AUG. 27, 1789 PROCLAIMED THAT "MEN ARE BORN AND REMAIN FEE AND EQUAL IN RIGHTS"
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN
ON JUNE 20, 1789 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS TOOK AN OATH AT THIS SPORTS VENUE NOT TO SEPARATE UNTIL THERE WAS A NEW CONSTITUTION
TENNIS COURT
THE JACOBINS USED THE ASSASSINATION OF THIS EDITOR OF L'AMI DU PEUPLE AS AN EXCUSE TO BEGIN THE REIGN OF TERROR
MARAT
THIS TITLE SWASHBUCKLING HERO RESCUES ARISTOCRATS DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN AN ORCZY WORK
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
A CRUDE CART USED TO CARRY THE CONDEMNED TO THE GUILLOTINE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
TUMBREL
RUFUS PUTNAM, NAMED MARIETTA, OH IN HONOR OF THIS FRENCHWOMAN, A PAL OF THE U.S. DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
MARIE ANTOINETTE
THIS EVENT THAT BEGAN IN 1789 EMBODIED MANY ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS, BUT IS THOUGHT TO HAVE ENDED THE ERA
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THIS LEADER OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WOUNDED HIMSELF IN THE JAW WITH A PISTOL ON THE SAME DAY HE WAS GUILLOTINED
ROBESPIERRE
THIS FRENCH STATESMAN SERVED UNDER 7 REGIMES, INCLUDING DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND UNDER NAPOLEON
TALLEYRAND
CLAUDE-JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE COMPOSED IT ONE NIGHT DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
LA MARSEILLAISE
YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR THE REVOLUTIONARIES ON THE BROADWAY SET OF "LES MISERABLES" BASED ON A NOVEL BY THIS FRENCH AUTHOR
HUGO
IN "THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE", A FILM ABOUT A REAL PRE-REVOLUTION SCANDAL, JOELY RICHARDSON PLAYS THIS FRENCH QUEEN
MARIE ANTOINETTE
IT OPENED IN 1889 FOR THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION, CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS
FRENCH REVOLUTION
IN 1789 KING LOUIS XVI ASKED, "IS IT A REVOLT?" AND A DUKE SAID, NO, IT WAS ONE OF THESE...THE FRENCH ONE
REVOLUTION
DE TOCQUEVILLE CALLED THIS EVENT THAT CHANGED WORLD HISTORY "INEVITABLE YET...COMPLETELY UNFORSEEN"
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THIS NOVEL WAS BASED IN PART ON THOMAS CARLYLE'S HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
A MONTH BEFORE BASTILLE DAY, THE ESTATES...COMMONERS, NOBILTIY, & THIS GROUP, BECAME ONE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
CLERGY
WITH THE COUP D'ETAT OF 18 BRUMAIRE IN 1799, HE OVERTHREW THE DIRECTORY
NAPOLEON
THOMAS PAINE WAS INDICTED FOR TREASON IN ENGLAND IN 1792 FOR THIS WORK DEFENDING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE RIGHTS OF MAN
AN 1830 FRENCH REVOLUTION BEGAN IN THIS MONTH, PERHAPS BRINGING BACK FOND MEMORIES
JULY
JUST PRIOR TO HIS 1793 EXECUTION, HE CRIED OUT, "PEOPLE, I DIE INNOCENT"
LOUIS XVI
REIGN OF TERROR LEADER WHO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE JACOBIN SOCIETY
ROBESPIERRE
IT WAS A RED-LETTER DAY IN 1997 WHEN DOUGLAS SILLS DEBUTED AS THE HERO OF THIS FRENCH REVOLUTION MUSICAL
THE SCARLETT PIMPERNEL
THIS 1789 OATH BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SERVED NOTICE ON LOUIS XVI AND LEFT THE BALL IN HIS COURT
TENNIS COURT OATH
DEMOCRACIES MUST BALANCE LIBERTY AND THIS CONCEPT, ALSO FOUND IN THE MOTTO OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
EQUALITY
THIS FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY SAID, "TERROR IS NOTHING ELSE THAN JUSTICE, PROMPT, SECURE, AND INFLEXIBLE"
ROBESPIERRE
RUNNING FROM JULY 19 TO AUGUST 17, THIS MONTH WAS SO HOT...YOU COULD COOK A LOBSTER ON THE SIDEWALK
THERMIDOR
1790S NEW TRICOLOR FLAG REPLACED ONE WITH THIS FLORAL SYMBOL
FLEUR-DE-LIS
STIRRED BY THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE BELGIANS DECLARED THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM THIS COUNTRY
NETHERLANDS (HOLLAND)
THIS RULING FAMILY OF MONACO WAS DEPOSED DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, BUT REGAINED THE THRONE IN 1814
GRIMALDIS
HIS INVENTION OF THE WEAVING LOOM WAS DELAYED BY HIS SERVICE IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
JACQUARD
THIS FRENCH QUEEN LED A FASHION REVOLUTION IN 1783 BY WEARING A STRIKINGLY SIMPLE WHITE MUSLIN DRESS
MARIE ANTOINETTE
SOME THINK HIS WORKS, INCLUDING "THE SOCIAL CONTRACT", INSPIRED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
ROUSSEAU
THIS TERM THAT MEANS "WITHOUT KNEE BREECHES", WAS APPLIED TO SOME ILL-CLAD FRENCH REVOLUTIONARIES
SANS-CULLOTES
HISTORIAN SIMON SCHAMA WROTE THE 1989 BOOK, "CITIZENS, A CHRONICLE OF..." THIS 18TH-C. EVENT
FRENCH REVOLUTION
YEAR IN WHICH THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE TO JAMES MADISON, "FRANCE WILL BE QUIET THIS YEAR"
1789
HER FIRST HUSBAND, ALEXANDRE DE BEAUHARNAIS, FOUGHT IN BOTH THE AMERICAN & FRENCH REVOLUTIONS
EMPRESS JOSEPHINE
1805, NEAR SPAIN: HE SAID, "ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY", AND WAS KILLED
LORD NELSON
1798, EGYPT: THIS BRITISH COMMANDER OF THE VANGUARD DEFEATED THE FRENCH IN NAVAL BATTLE OF THE NILE
LORD NELSON