2.6- The Destruction Of The Girondins

Question 1

How many jacobin or montagnard deputies were there within the convention?

Answer 1

250

Question 2

How many girondin members within the convention were there?

Answer 2

180

Question 3

How many members of the plain were there within the convention?

Answer 3

300

Question 4

Who were the leaders of the girondins?

Answer 4

Brissot and Roland

Question 5

Who were the leaders of the Jacobins?

Answer 5

Robespierre, Danton, and Saint-Just

Question 6

What were the similarities between the Girondins and Jacobins?

Answer 6

-believe in the revolution
-republican (wanted to abolish the monarchy)
-anti-clerical
-wanted a more enlightened and humane France

Question 7

What did the Girondins believe?

Answer 7

-didn’t think the king should be executed
-committed to fighting the war to spread revolutionary values across Europe
-believed in free market economics
-believed in federalism

Question 8

What is federalism?

Answer 8

More power should be given to the provinces

Question 9

What did the Jacobins believe?

Answer 9

-wanted to execute the king
-committed to fighting the war to defend the revolution in France
-believe the government should exercise tight controls over prices and wages
-believed in strong central government control

Question 10

Where were the Girondins supported?

Answer 10

Most of the Paris press, the bourgeoisie, the cities outside Paris

Question 11

Where were the Jacobins supported?

Answer 11

The urban poor, the sans culottes and the fédérés

Question 12

What fears did the girondins have?

Answer 12

Thought Robespierre was trying to make himself dictator

Question 13

What fears did the Jacobins have?

Answer 13

Thought the girondins were trying to join forces with royalists and betray the revolution

Question 14

When did the girondin government turn things around in the war?

Answer 14

In the winter of 1792

Question 15

What did the girondin government do to turn things around?

Answer 15

Drove the prussians out of French soil and conquered the Austrian Netherlands

Question 16

What did the girondins do when they became confident?

Answer 16

Persuaded the convention to declare war against Britain, the Netherlands and Spain as well

Question 17

When did the girondins persuade the convention to declare war on other countries?

Answer 17

February 1793

Question 18

What countries declared war on France shortly after the girondins declared war on more countries?

Answer 18

Portugal and Naples

Question 19

Why did Portugal and Naples declare war on France?

Answer 19

They were worried by the threat the French Revolution seemed to pose to European peace

Question 20

How was the war going for France by March 1793?

Answer 20

Badly

Question 21

What happened in March 1793?

Answer 21

Austrians reconquered the Austrian Netherlands

Question 22

Who was the general in charge of French forces in the Austrian Netherlands?

Answer 22

Dumouriez

Question 23

What did Dumouriez do?

Answer 23

He defected to the Austrians

Question 24

Who was arrested in March 1793 by the Girondins?

Answer 24

Marat and Hebert, two leading jacobin supporters

Question 25

What were Marat and Hebert put on trial for?

Answer 25

For their anti girondin journalism, arguing that it was incitement to murder

Question 26

What happened to Marat and Hebert?

Answer 26

They were acquitted

Question 27

What caused renowned discontent amongst the urban poor in Paris?

Answer 27

High bread prices and the fall in the value of the assignant by 50%

Question 28

What did the convention impose to help the discontent among the urban poor?

Answer 28

Maximum grain prices in May 1793

Question 29

What did the maximum grain prices lead to in the short term?

Answer 29

Growth in the black market for bread, which caused prices to rise

Question 30

When did a peasant rebellion break out in the Vendée?

Answer 30

March 1793

Question 31

Did the girondin government crush the peasant rebellion in the Vendée?

Answer 31

No

Question 32

Who rebelled against the convention at the end of May 1793?

Answer 32

Moderates in the city of Lyon

Question 33

What did the Jacobins claim about the moderates who were rebelling against the convention in Lyon?

Answer 33

They were associated with the girondins

Question 34

When did Robespierre give a speech?

Answer 34

26th May 1793

Question 35

What did Robespierre’s speech say?

Answer 35

He invited ‘the people to place themselves in insurrection against the corrupt deputies’, meaning the girondins

Question 36

When was there a huge demonstration of sans culottes against the girondins?

Answer 36

31st May 1793

Question 37

What happened on the 2nd June 1793?

Answer 37

80,000 national guardsmen (mostly sans culottes) surrounded the convention and trained their cannon at it

Question 38

What demands did the 80,000 National guardsmen want?

Answer 38

The convention to give up the leading girondins and impose a maximum price on all essential goods

Question 39

How many girondin deputies and ministers were arrested?

Answer 39

29 deputies and 2 ministers

Question 40

What happened to the remaining girondins after the national guards threat?

Answer 40

They were expelled from the convention

Question 41

What happened following the fall of the girondins?

Answer 41

There were rebellions in a number of provincial cities, including Caen, Toulon, and Marseille called the Federal Revolt

Question 42

Who was the Federal Revolt led by?

Answer 42

Moderates who didn’t want to be governed by the jacobins

Question 43

What happened to Marat?

Answer 43

Charlotte Corday assassinated him in his bathtub, citing the fall of the girondins as motivation

Question 44

When did Corday assassinate Marat?

Answer 44

13th July 1793

Question 45

What happened in October 1793?

Answer 45

The girondins were found guilty of treason by the revolutionary tribunal and guillotined