A Tale of Two Cities

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The A Tale of Two Cities Help Page
Items Available: Crossword Puzzles Character Pictures Study Help Vocabulary Words Background Outline (French Revolution) Charles Dickens Bio A full text of the novel Audio Version of the Novel David Perdue's Dickens Page	1

Study Help:

1. Chapter Guide (questions chapter by chapter)

2. Final Review Guide (will definitely help you with the exam)

Basic Identifications:

Old Bailey

gold coin

"Recalled to Life"

105 North Tower

Therese Defarge

Charles Darnay

Bastille

chocolate

knitting

"sharp female, newly born"

wine shop

"best of times...worst of times..."

deafness

July 14, 1789

footsteps

Mender of Roads

Seamstress

Solomon Pross

Foulon

Lucie Manette (Darnay)

Alexandre Manette

Sydney Carton

C.J. Stryver

Marquis St. Evremonde (1 & 2)

Monseigneur

Jarvis Lorry

Ernest Defarge

Jerry Cruncher

Miss Pross

John Barsad

Roger Cly

Theophile Gabelle

Gaspard

Young Jerry

Wood-Sawyer

Mrs. Cruncher

Young Lucie Darnay

The Vengeance

First Estate

Second Estate

Third Estate

Louis XIV

Louis XV

Louis XVI

Marie Antoinette

Meeting of Estates General

Great Fear

Declaration of the Rights of Man

September Massacres

Reign of Terror

Robespierre

Danton

Marat

Guillotine

Year I

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10 - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/clio/french-revolution/tale-two-cities/defarge-confronted.jpg

4	2	3
Sydney Carton	Marquis St. Evremonde	Death of the Marquis

5	6	7
Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton	Carton, Lucie, Miss Pross, Little Lucie, and Dr. Manette	The Seamstress and Carton

8	9	10
The guillotine in action	Storming The Bastille (back left)	Madame Defarge

	11 Charles Dickens (Bio)