Date: Tuesday, May 2nd• Time: 11:30• 1 hour 15 minutes

While the 1st source expresses _____, the second source believes_____. However,

• Topic sentence: State similarity from thesis

• Topic sentence: State difference from thesis

• Analyze the documents

• The statement _____ is strongly supported by the documents. Sources a, b and c support this

• Topic sentence: Source a, b and c support the assertion _____

• Topic sentence: Source d does not support the assertion _____

• Analyze all four documents

vow by members of the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written

Last King of France from 1774 to 1792

Was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution

Middle class banker who was chosen as a finance minister and created a fake financial report

Was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War

French politician, engineer, freemason, and mathematician. Was known as the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary War

Was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution in particular the first president of the Committee of Public Safety

A social system in which the nobility held land in exchange for service

"The old system of government" describes France before 1789

A large royal residence built in the seventeenth century by King Louis XIV of France in Versailles, near Paris. The palace, with its lavish gardens and fountains, is a spectacular example of French classical architecture. The Hall of Mirrors is particularly well known.

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

A ruler with unlimited power

a system of government in which a country is ruled by a king and queen whose power is limited by a constitution

government by a dictator absolute authority in any sphere A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

They consisted of the Roman Catholic Clergy

The second class of French society made up of the noblility

97% of the population (the rest of France) They consisted of the bourgeoisie, the san-culottes and the peasants they paid high taxes and had no special privileges

the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people

a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an "aristocratic conspiracy" by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.

July 14, 1789-estruction of the prison seen as the true start of the French Revolution.

Women marched Versaille in protest of bread costs and forced the royal family to move to Paris. This led to the signing of the constitution in 1791.

3rd estate declaration that it was the only true govt. in france

General - the legislative body in France until 1789, representing the three estates of the realm (i.e., the clergy, the nobility, and the commons).

granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population.

was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government.

during the night of 20-21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution

culottes - a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution.

a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793-4.

a member of the French moderate republican party in power 1791-93 during the French Revolution, so called because the party leaders were the deputies from the department of the Gironde.

A national meeting of delegates elected in primaries, caucuses, or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, ratify the party platform, elect officers, and adopt rules.

The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France, conducted foreign policy, and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795.

a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular Reign of Terror, the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.

was a decree passed by the French National Convention on 17 September 1793, during the French Revolution.

Western France place of counterrevolutionary rebellion that started when peasants revolted against new military draft (supportive of monarchy).

was an event in revolutionary France, and is so named because it began in the month of Thermidor on the Revolutionary Calendar (July 19 - August 17) of the year II (1794). It was a reaction to the Reign of Terror after the execution of Maximilien de Robespierre.

Established after the Reign of Terror / National Convention a five man group as the executive branch of the country incompetent and corrupt, only lasted for 4 years.

15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804.