FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon.
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Jacobin leader whose time as leader became known as the Reign of Terror in France.
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A sudden seizure of political power in a nation.
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A machine for beheading people, used as means of execution during the French Revolution.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top.
Detailed explanation-2: -guillotine, instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation, introduced into France in 1792.
Detailed explanation-3: -The guillotine was a device consisting of two poles and a blade with which a person was beheaded. This device was invented by Dr. Guillotin.
Detailed explanation-4: -: a machine for cutting off a person’s head by means of a heavy blade sliding in two upright grooved posts. guillotine verb.
Detailed explanation-5: -During the Revolution, the guillotine was continuously moved around Paris. It was first used on the Place de Grève and then the Place du Carrousel (near the Tuileries). It was then moved to the Place de la Révolution (currently the Place de la Concorde) from May 11, 1793 to June 9, 1794.