Unit #4 FRENCH REVOLUTION & NAPOLEON (1789-1815) - Vocab

Unit #4 – FRENCH REVOLUTION & NAPOLEON (1789-1815) - Vocab

LESSON #1 – CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION First Estate - .5% Second Estate – 1.5% Third Estate Bourgeois Peasants Louis XV Rene Maupeou Parlement of Paris American Revolution Assembly of Notables Estates General

Other words to know: High Clergy Low Clergy Nobility of the Sword / Robe Haute/Petit Bourgeois “après moi, le deluge” Marie Antoinette Maria Theresa Joseph II “let them eat cake” Jacues Necker Charles Colonne Charles de Brienne Assembly of Clergy

George III Lord North

LESSON #2 – EARLY CONFLICTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1790) Estates General Three orders Clergy – Nobility – Commoners Abbe Emanuel Sieyes “What is the Third Estate” National Assembly / National Constituent Assembly Tennis Court Oath Poor grain harvest of 1788 July 14, 1789 Bastille Marquis de Lafayette - National Guard The Great Fear Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Paris Women’s march on Versailles

Constitutional Monarchy – July 1990 Olympe de Gouges - Declaration of the Rights of Women Assignats Civil Constitution of the Clergy

1 Other words to know: Cahiers de dolence Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Tricolor Emigrees Departments Citizen ___ Metric System

LESSON #3 – THE REPUBLIC AND THE TERROR Constitution of September 1791 Maximillian Robespierre (“the uncorruptable”) Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790 Mary Wollstoncraft Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790) Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) King and Queen arrested and returned to Paris (Flight to Verennes) Declaration of Pillnitz Legislative Assembly Jacobin Club War against Austria First Coalition Tuilleries National Convention Second Revolution The Republic September Massacres Girondists The Mountain George Danton The Plain Execution of Louis XVI – Jan 21, 1793 National Convention 1793 Guillotine Sans-Culottes Committee of Public Safety Reign of Terror “Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice… it is, therefore, and emanation of virtue” Dechristianization Mobilization of French resources (Levee en Masse) Thermodorian Reaction The Directory Napoleon Bonaparte

Other words to know Paris Commune Jean-Paul Marat Charlotte Corday The Constitution of Year One Republic of Virtue Deism (Temple of Reason / Cult of the Supreme Being) Law of 22 Prairial White Terror Constitution of Year Three Royalist Coup, 1795 (Vendémiaire Coup)

2 “with a whiff of grapeshot, I dispersed the crowd” 1997 Elections and incumbent coup Brumaire Coup, 1799 First Consul Constitution of the Year VIII, 1799

LESSON #4 – NAPOLEON Napoleon Bonaparte Corsica Artillery officer First Consul for Life (later: First Consul for Life) Plebiscite - 1799 Code Napoleon (Napoleonic Code) - 1804 Emigrees Concordat [with Pope Pius VII] of 1801 Second Coalition, 1798 Lord Nelson (British) and the Battle of Trafalgar, 1804 Third Coalition, 1804 Battle of Austerlitz, 1805 (Battle of the Three Emperors) Confederation of the Rhine, 1806 Battle of Jena, 1806 Fourth Coalition, 1806 Grand Empire Continental System, 1807 The Third of May by Francisco Goya, 1808 Invasion of Russia, 1812 Grand Army Exile to Elba Louis XVIII Napoleon’s Hundred Days Battle of Waterloo Exile to St. Helena

Other Words to know Brumaire Coup Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Emperor Napoleon Josephine Peninsular War, 1807 (“Spanish Ulcer”) Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington Grand Duchy of Warsaw Princess Marie Louise, daughter of the Austrian Emperor Destruction of Moscow, 1812 Battle of the Nations, 1814 (Battle of Leipzig) Congress of Vienna