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| Question | Answer |
| estates | Frances population had been divided by law into one of three groups |
| First estate | clergy |
| second estate | nobles |
| Third estate | anyone from the lowest peasant to the wealthiest merchant |
| taille | France's chief tax |
| bourgeoisie | middle class another part of the third estate |
| Louis XVI | absolute monarchy |
| Queen Marie Antoinette | she was known for her extravagance |
| tennis court oath | they swore they would continue meeting until they had a new constitution |
| declaration of rights of man and citizen | adopted on august 26 inspired by the english bill of rights of 1689 and by the american declaration of independence and constitution |
| maximilien rotespierre | one of the revolution's most important leaders and a radical jacobin |
| reign of terror | policies that the committee adopted |
| coup d'etat | sudden overthrow of the government |
| napoleon bonaparte | he brought the revolution to an end when he came to power in 1799 |
| versailles | King Louis XVI has a palace here |
| storming of the bastille | a group of attackers managed to get into the prison and released the seven prisoners and cut off the prison wardens head the crowd then demolished the bastille brick by brick and Paris was abandoned to the rebels |
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