French Revolution

2nd Estate

First Estate

Clergy

Exempt from paying taxes

.5% of population

did not participate in the draft

Nobles

Exempt from paying taxes

1.5% of population

3rd Estate

Commoners

Made up of Bourgeousie, Peasants, and city workers

98% of population

Girondists

did not participate in the draft

Jacobins

Moderates who want to keep the monarchy as a figurehead

Radicals that want to completely erase the monarchy and any symbols of the past in France

Max Robespierre

de factor leader of the Revolution

Royalty

Louis XIV

French Monarch that was a strong advocate for absolute Monachry and Divine Right

"The Sun King"

Louis XVI

The French King at the time of the French Revolution

Marie Antoinette

The French queen at the time of the French Revolution

From the country of Austria

Jean-Paul Marat

Urged the poor to violently revolt against the nobility

Assainaited

seen as a martyr of the Revolution

well fed

made their own laws

Took care of the 2nd estate

Made their own laws

took care of the 1st estate

beheaded

Hated

Beheaded

made bad decisons

tried to escape France and go to Austria

Tried to escape France and go to Austria

made the Aswan Regime worst for the poor and better for the nobility