| BASTILLE | A fortress in Paris, destroyed in 1789 at the beginning of the French Revolution (8) |
| STORMING | - of the Bastille; an event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution (8) |
| TUILERIES | ___ Palace, royal residence in Paris destroyed in 1871 by the Paris Commune (9) |
| EQUALITY | Liberty, ___, Fraternity:- motto time of the French Revolution (8) |
| MARIANNE | Female personification of the French Revolution (8) |
| REIGN | ... of Terror, period of the French Revolution when supreme power was in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety and the Jacobins (5) |
| TERROR | The Reign of ___, a period of violence occurring after the onset of the French Revolution (6) |
| TALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, A ... Two Cit |
| NORMAN | US soprano who sang the Marseillaise in Paris for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Jessye |
| CASBAH | Market place around a fortress in a N African town (6) |
| TERREUR | La ..., a period of the French Revolution following the creation of the First Republic when massacres and executions took place (7) |
| ATALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, ... Two Citie |
| CASTILE | I am imprisoned in a fortress in spain (7) |
| CITADEL | A fortress in a city (7) |
| STAVROPOL | Russian city, founded as a fortress in 1777, known as Voroshilovsk from 1940 to 1944 |
| TALEOFTWOCITIES | A ---, 1859 novel set around the time of the French Revolution |
| TWO | Charles Dickens story of the French Revolution, A Tale Of ... Cities |
| EGALITE | Middle word in the motto of the French Revolution |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | Queen at the start of the French Revolution (5,10) |
| SPIRAL | Paris destroyed - end of mortal coil |
