Aftermath Of The Terror Flashcards
31st July (13 Thermidor) 1794
vacancies on the cps and cgs from round of guilloting killed off mostly by moderate dantonists and members of the plain.
1st August 14 Thermidor 1794
Law of 22 prairial repealed
10th august 1794
Revolutionary tribunal reorganised, number of guillotines significantly decreased exile to Guinea used as alternative
24th August 1794
Reorganisation of the government due to law on revolutionary government
Revolutionary committees reduced to 1 per department
New representatives en mission saw removal of jacobin power
31st August 1794
Powers of the Paris commune reduced
18th September 1795
Church and state were separated
State stopped paying clerical salaries
12th November 1795
Jacobin clubs closed
24th December 1795
Law of maximum repealed
(Law on price limits)
What was the white Terror?
A series of purges and campaigns by the Thermidorians against former proponents of the terror. Attacked sans-culottes and jacobins in the street.
Supported by muscadins
How was stability threatened by royalists, Catholics and emigrees
Victims of the terror employed violent + aggressive measures to murder local jacobins
Convention attempted to control this however there were many examples of violence towards jacobins. Eg. Lyon May 1795 jacobins hauled from cells and slaughtered.
Royalists wanted Catholic Church to be restored.
High numbers of returning emigress
How was the war progressing in 1795
Victory at fleurs June 1794
Proclamation of “Bavarian republic”
Peace of Basel in April 1795 with Prussia
When was the Germinal rising ?
1st April 1795
When was the prairial rising ?
20th/21st May 1795
When was the Vendémiare rising?
5th October 1795
Who were the protagonists in the Germinal rising?
Sans-Culottes
Who were the protagonists in the Prairial rising?
Sansculottes men + women - armed
Who were the protagonists in the Vendemiare rising?
Royalists
Monarchists
Aims of those involved in the Germinal Rising?
Demanded bread and the constitution of 1793
What were the aims of the Prairial rising?
Demanded release of jacobin prisoners and the instatement of the constitution of 1793
New controls to ensure a better supply of food in the capital
Aims of the Vendemiare rising
Belief that a plebiscite held in September to win support for non-monarchical constitution had been rigged.
What happened during the Germinal uprising ?
10,000 invaded the convention with demands for bread
Unarmed and unorganised
National guardsmen arrived and they withdrew resistance
What happened during the Prairial rising?
Forced way into meeting hall and murdered deputy Jean-Bertrand Féraud, paraded his head on a pike
20,000 sans-culottes on 2nd day loaded cannon on the convention alongside national guardsmen
What happened during the Vendemiare rising?
25,000 Parisians marched on the convention
Royalist groups surrounded the convention outnumbering republics 6:1
Bonaparte working with Juachim Murat fired 40 canons
Government reaction + results of Germinal
Convention placed Paris under Martial Law
Gave command of the city to general Pichegru
Sought out and arrested those suspected to be suspicious
Result:
Sped up deportations of former Montagnards and ordered disarming in Paris and the Provences
Government reaction and results of Prairial
Convention agreed to establish a food commission and called in troops to drive out the rebels
Muscadins helped to defend the convention
40,000 soldiers called to dispel crowds
Results:
Sans-culottes withdrew from convention and prevented further trouble by marching troops to Fallbourg Sanint-Antoine and forced surrender of weapons.
Those presumed leaders or bearing weapons were executed.
Government reaction and results of Vendemiare
News of a royalist army caused the convention to assemble three battalions by calling on unemployed jacobin army officers
Napoleon commanded 5000-6000 troops
Results:
300 royalists killed
