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| To give up or step down from power. |
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| Old order. System of government in pre-revolution France. |
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| Blockade designed by Napoleon to hurt Britain economically by closing European ports to British goods. Ultimately unsuccessful. |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man |
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| Document written by the National Assembly which guaranteed rights to French citizens. Modeled on the American Declaration of Independence. |
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| Situation in which a government spends more money than it take in. |
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| Dissenting group of people. |
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| Legislative body consisting of representatives of the 3 estates. |
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| Fighting carried on through hit-and-run raids. |
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| Device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands by beheading. |
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| Member of a radical political club during the French Revolution. |
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| Principle by which monarchies that had been unseated by the French Revolution or Napoleon were restored. |
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| Absolute monarch of France. Executed by the National Convention for treason. |
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| Emperor of France. Reformed France and created the Grand Empire. Defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. |
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| Body of French civil laws introduced in 1804; served as model for many nation's civil codes. |
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| A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country. |
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| Led the Committee of Public Safety and led the Reign of Terror. |
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| Working-class who made the French Revolution more radical; called such because he or she wore long trousers instead of fancy knee breeches that the upper class wore. |
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| Military tactic in which soldiers destroy everything in their path to hurt the enemy. |
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