The French Revolution (1789-1799) Trivia Word Search

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

French troops halted the Prussian advance at this village on September 20, 1792, saving the Revolution's early gains.

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

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

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

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

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

An armed uprising nicknamed for the month of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ briefly invaded the Convention hall in April 1795.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robespierre's radical political club met in a former Dominican convent and gave its name to the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ faction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chemist Antoine _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was tried and guillotined with dozens of other former tax officials in May 1794.

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

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

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

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

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

Napoleon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ married Josephine de Beauharnais in March 1796, days before leaving for his Italian campaign.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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