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This is a glossary of the French Revolution. It generally does not explicate names of individual people or their political associations; those can be found in List of people associated with the French Revolution. The terminology routinely used in discussing the French Revolution can be confusing, even daunting. The same political faction may be referred to by different historians (or by the same historian in different contexts) by different names. During much of the revolutionary period, the French used a newly invented calendar that fell into complete disuse after the revolutionary era. Different legislative bodies had rather similar names, not always translated uniformly into English. This article is intended as a central place to clarify these issues. For citations see the articles and also Ballard (2011); Furet (1989) Hanson (2004), Ross (1998) and Scott & Rothaus (1985). ==The three estates== The estates of the realm in ''ancien régime'' France were: *First Estate (''Premièr État'', ''le clergé'' ) – The clergy, both high (generally siding with the nobility, and it often was recruited amongst its younger sons) and low. *Second Estate (''Second État'', ''la noblesse '') – The nobility. Technically, but not usually of much relevance, the Second Estate also included the Royal Family. *Third Estate (''Tiers État'') – Everyone not included in the First or Second Estate. At times this term refers specifically to the bourgeoisie, the middle class, but the Third Estate also included the ''sans-culottes'', the labouring class. Also included in the Third Estate were lawyers, merchants, and government officials. ''See also:'' Fourth Estate, a term with two relevant meanings: on the one hand, the generally unrepresented poor, nominally part of the Third Estate; on the other, the press, as a fourth powerful entity in addition to the three estates of the realm. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glossary of the French Revolution」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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