AOS 1 Historiography

Question 0

2 historians views on Necker’s Compte Rendu.

Answer 0

“…a grossly optimistic and complacent document… Transformed a a vital deficit of 46 million livres into a fictitious surplus of 10 million.” (Christopher Hibbert)

“…to sustain that confidence with an unprecedented gesture.” (William Doyle)

Question 1

2 Historians views on the Enlightenment and Philosophes.

Answer 1

“…it can be said that the revolution was indeed their work.” (Alison Patrick)

“…they dictate the terms in which educated people thought about society.” (Norman Hampson)

Question 2

2 Historians views for the aristocratic revolt.

Answer 2

” ‘privileged hoped to solve the crisis at the ‘commons’ expense” (George Rude)

“…marked by a conspicuous acceptance of fiscal equality” (Simon Schama)

Question 3

2 historians views on Abbé Seiyes “What is the Third Estate?”

Answer 3

“…to take the nations fiscal affairs into its own hands.” (George Rudè)

“Seiyes was no democrat - he noted that women and the poor could not be entrusted with political responsibilities” (Peter McPhee)

Question 4

2 Historians views on the Cahiers.

Answer 4

“The Cahiers of the clergy and nobility stress their attachment to traditional privileges and immunities” (George Rude)

“The existence of several kinds of public opinion”

Question 5

2 historians views on the National Assembly.

Answer 5

“Swore the tennis court Oath, a solemn statement of the reforming aims of the commons” (Albert Soboul)

“The absolute monarchy was dead and the aristocratic monarchy was stillborn” (Francois Furet)

Question 6

2 Historians views on the Fall of the Bastille.

Answer 6

“An event of far-reaching implications, and one which disconcerned the insufficient to take the city by assault” (George Lefrebvre)

“The control of Paris by bourgeois members of the Third Estate was institutionalised” (Peter McPhee)