IDENTIFICATIONS
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1. nobles of the sword
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2. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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3. nobles of the robe
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4. cahiers de doléances
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6. Paris Commune
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7. parlements
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8. corvée
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9. banalités
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10. emigrés
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11. Directory
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12. Jacobins
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13. Treaty of Campo Formio
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14. Girondins
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15. Committee of Public Safety
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16. National Assembly
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17. Estates General
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18. physiocrats
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19. National Convention
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20. gabelle
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21. sans-culottes
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Who Was I?
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1. A prime mover of the Tennis Court Oath, this priest, when asked what he had done of note during the Terror, replied, "I lived."
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2. A fanatical believer in the philosophy of Rousseau, this zealous lawyer became the virtual dictator of France during the bloodiest period of the Terror.
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3. An intransigent defender of the common people, this distinguished physician was finally stabbed by Charlotte Corday, a Girondist zealot.
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4. An influential member of the physiocrats, this royal minster was dismissed from office when he advocated economic reform.
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5. This maverick aristocrat, an advocate of constitutional monarchy was leader of the National Assembly at the time of his death in 1791.
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6. This organizer of the terror, who in April 1794 become one of its victims, said in mounting the scaffold, "Show my head to the people."
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7. This Austrian statesman made "legitimacy" the catchword of the Congress of Vienna.
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