The French Revolution (1789-1799) Trivia Word Search

Revolutionary France declared war on this island kingdom in February 1793, drawing Britain into the conflict.

A besieged Mediterranean port fell to republican forces in December 1793 after a young artillery officer's plan succeeded at _ _ _ _ _ _.

The last royalist commander in the Vendee, Francois de _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, was captured and shot in March 1796.

The August 1793 levee en _ _ _ _ _ conscripted all unmarried Frenchmen aged 18 to 25 for the war effort.

A failed 1795 émigré landing at this Breton peninsula ended with hundreds of royalists shot.

Prosecutor Antoine Fouquier-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ sent hundreds of prisoners to the guillotine during the Terror.

The Assembly created this powerful executive body in April 1793 to oversee the war effort and government ministries.

The royal family was caught fleeing Paris in June 1791 near this eastern town, ending any hope of quiet escape.

Workers found the king's secret foreign correspondence hidden in a locked iron _ _ _ _ _ in the Tuileries in November 1792.

A five-member executive body called the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ took power under the new Constitution of Year III in late 1795.

Meeting in a _ _ _ _ _ _ court on June 20, 1789, deputies swore not to disband until France had a constitution.

This nobleman-turned-revolutionary warned the king's messenger that deputies would leave their hall only at the point of a bayonet.

A royalist uprising against conscription erupted in this western region of France in March 1793.

Mobs executed hundreds of Catholic clergy and nobles held in Paris prisons during _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1792.

This major Rhone-valley city was renamed Ville-Affranchie after being singled out for destruction by the Convention in 1793.

Revolutionaries seized control of Paris's city government, forming an insurrectionary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in August 1792.

Moderate deputies known as the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ were purged from the Convention in June 1793 after a Paris uprising.

Charlotte _ _ _ _ _ _ was guillotined for stabbing a leading radical journalist to death in his bath in July 1793.

Robespierre delivered a defiant speech to the Convention on 8 Thermidor, the day before deputies voted his _ _ _ _ _ _.

Notre-Dame Cathedral was rededicated as a Temple of _ _ _ _ _ _ during the Revolution's anti-clerical campaign.

Journalist Jacques _ _ _ _ _ _ and his radical Cordeliers allies were guillotined in March 1794.

The execution device of the Terror was named for Doctor Joseph-Ignace _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, who had championed it as humane.

Historians call the harshest phase of the Revolution, roughly 1793-94, the Reign of _ _ _ _ _ _.

A soldier named Rouget de Lisle composed what became France's national _ _ _ _ _ _ in Strasbourg in April 1792.

This former Interior Minister's wife declared "Liberty, what crimes are committed in your name" before her own execution.

In February 1794 the Convention voted to abolish _ _ _ _ _ _ _ across France's colonial empire.

This Girondin leader, Jacques Pierre _ _ _ _ _ _ _, gave his name to the moderate faction purged in June 1793.

This 1792 manifesto from an Austro-Prussian commander threatened Paris with destruction if the royal family was harmed.

Deputy Jean-Lambert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was a key organizer of Robespierre's overthrow in Thermidor 1794.

Parisian crowds famously stormed this royal fortress-prison on July 14, 1789.

This American Revolutionary War hero was made commander of the new National Guard days after the Bastille fell.

A Directory member and former Terror-era official, Paul _ _ _ _ _ _, helped engineer the 1795 transition to the new government.

Austria and Prussia's 1791 Declaration of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ threatened to intervene on behalf of the French monarchy.

Engineer and soldier Lazare _ _ _ _ _ _ organized France's revolutionary armies as a Committee of Public Safety member.

The Duke of Orleans renamed himself Philippe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to show revolutionary sympathies, but was guillotined anyway in 1793.

On September 22, 1792, the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Convention proclaimed the monarchy abolished and declared France a republic.

Robespierre staged a June 1794 festival honoring his officially decreed Cult of the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Being.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Desmoulins, a journalist and Danton's close friend, went to the guillotine alongside him in 1794.

The king's other brother, the Comte d'_ _ _ _ _ _, fled France within days of the Bastille's fall.

In June 1790 the Assembly abolished hereditary titles of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, ending a legal class centuries old.

In November 1789 the Assembly placed _ _ _ _ _ _ property throughout France at the disposal of the nation.

After the monarchy fell, the deposed king was tried under the plain family name Citizen _ _ _ _ _.

A 1795 armistice on this river halted fighting between France and Austria as the year ended.

Abbe Emmanuel _ _ _ _ _ _ famously asked, of the Third Estate, "What is it? Everything."

Joseph _ _ _ _ _ _, later Napoleon's police minister, helped plot Robespierre's fall in 1794.

French forces defeated Austria at this battle in June 1794, easing military pressure on the Republic.

Astronomer Jean Sylvain _ _ _ _ _ _ became the first elected mayor of revolutionary Paris.

This radical journalist and Convention deputy demanded the king's execution and edited the newspaper L'Ami du Peuple.

The Legislative Assembly declared war on this Central European power in April 1792, effectively starting the wider war.

An armed royalist uprising against the Convention was crushed by cannon fire in the streets of Paris in October 1795.

Soldiers fired on a crowd demanding the king's removal at this Paris parade ground in July 1791, killing dozens.

A June 1794 law nicknamed for the revolutionary month of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ sharply accelerated Revolutionary Tribunal trials.

This playwright and women's-rights advocate, Olympe de _ _ _ _ _ _, was guillotined for Girondin sympathies in November 1793.

King _ _ _ _ _ XVI convoked elections for the Estates-General in January 1789.

A September 1793 law targeting suspected counter-revolutionaries opened the bloodiest phase of the Terror.

The Convention adopted a new republican _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in October 1793, renaming the months and starting Year One retroactively.

Prussia and France signed peace at this Swiss city in April 1795, ending their war.

Georges _ _ _ _ _ _ and fellow moderate Camille Desmoulins were convicted and executed the same day in April 1794.

The Directory-era Republic made the _ _ _ _ _ its official currency unit in 1795.

A Parisian crowd invaded this royal residence in June 1792 and forced Louis XVI to wear a liberty cap.

This finance minister's dismissal in July 1789 helped spark the storming of the Bastille days later.

The Convention granted a general _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to Vendee rebels and restored religious freedom in February 1795.

The king's exiled brother, the Comte de _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, later took the throne himself as Louis XVIII.

The Convention created this special court in March 1793 to try suspected enemies of the Revolution.

In October 1789, hundreds of Parisian _ _ _ _ _ marched to Versailles and forced the king back to the capital.

The Convention proclaimed freedom of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and separated church from state in late February 1795.

A 1790 law required French priests to swear a loyalty _ _ _ _ to the state, splitting the clergy bitterly.

France declared war on the _ _ _ _ _ Republic and Great Britain within weeks of executing Louis XVI in 1793.

The Directory placed a young general in command of the Army of _ _ _ _ _ in early 1796, launching his rise to fame.

Queen _ _ _ _ _ Antoinette was guillotined in Paris on October 16, 1793.

The king's _ _ _ _ _ Guards were massacred defending the Tuileries Palace during the August 1792 uprising.

Wearing this three-colored ribbon on his hat, Louis XVI signaled acceptance of the new order when he visited Paris.

Napoleon's wife, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ de Beauharnais, married him in Paris in March 1796.

This general won early victories at Valmy and Jemappes before defecting to the Austrians in 1793.

The Assembly's August 1789 Declaration set out the natural _ _ _ _ _ _ of Man and of the Citizen.

The August Decrees of 1789 swept away centuries of _ _ _ _ _ _ obligations owed by peasants to nobles.

This religious minority was granted full citizenship and civic rights in France in September 1791.

This young ally of Robespierre on the Committee of Public Safety helped direct the war effort before his own execution.

An uprising by enslaved people began on this Caribbean colony, Saint-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, in August 1791.

France declared war on this Iberian kingdom in March 1793, opening yet another military front.

Confiscated church property backed this new paper currency introduced by the Assembly in December 1789.

Revolutionary armies crushed the last major Vendean royalist force near this Breton town in December 1793.

The Estates-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ convened at Versailles in May 1789 for the first time since 1614.

A young general named Bonaparte used cannon fire loaded with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to crush a royalist uprising in October 1795.

Robespierre and roughly twenty allies were guillotined the day after his arrest in the month of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, 1794.

Louis XVI's young son, known abroad as Louis XVII, died in 1795 while imprisoned in the _ _ _ _ _ _, a fortress-tower in Paris.

General de Bouille's troops crushed a soldiers' mutiny at this eastern French city on 31 August 1790.