Title: The French Revolution (1789–1799): Key Terms | SparkNotes
Headings: The French Revolution (1789–1799)
The French Revolution (1789–1799)
Key Terms
Terms
August Decrees
Bastille
Bourgeoisie
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Committee of Public Safety
Constitution of 1791
Declaration of Pillnitz
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Directory
Estates-General
Girondins
Great Fear
Jacobins
Limited Monarchy
Monarchy
National Assembly
National Convention
Parlements
Reign of Terror
Sans-culottes
Tennis Court Oath
Thermidorian Reaction
Third Estate
Tuileries
Versailles

Content: The document angered the pope and church officials and turned many French Catholics against the revolutionaries. Committee of Public Safety
A body, chaired by Maximilien Robespierre , to which the National Convention gave dictatorial powers in April 1793 in an attempt to deal with France’s wars abroad and economic problems at home. Although the committee led off its tenure with an impressive war effort and economy-salvaging initiatives, things took a turn for the worse when Robespierre began his violent Reign of Terror in late 1793. Constitution of 1791
The new French constitution that in 1791 established a constitutional monarchy, or limited monarchy, with all executive power answerable to a legislative assembly. Under the new constitution, King Louis XVI could only temporarily veto legislation passed by the assembly. The constitution restricted voting in the assembly to the upper and middle classes of French society and abolished “nobility” as a legal order. Declaration of Pillnitz
An August 27, 1791, warning from Prussia and Austria announcing that they would intervene militarily in France if any harm came to King Louis XVI, who had just been captured trying to escape with his family from Paris. The declaration prompted then–Legislative Assembly leader Jacques-Pierre Brissot to declare war on Austria and Prussia. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
A document, issued by the National Assembly on August 26, 1789, that granted sovereignty to all French people. The declaration, which drew from the ideas of some of the Enlightenment ’s greatest thinkers, asserted that liberty is a “natural” and “imprescriptible” right of man and that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”