AOS 2 Unit 3 - Consequences France Flashcards
The August Decrees
5-11 August 1789
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
26 August 1789
DORMAC article 9 and 17
article 9 = innocent until proven guilty
article 17 = right to property is sacred
DORMAC HI
“a statement of bourgeois idealism” - McPhee
“the blueprint for a new society” - McPhee
The Decree on the Fundamental Principles of Government
1 October 1789
The October Days
5 October 1789
6000 armed people
“death to the Austrian”
Decree on martial law
21 October 1789
Abolition of noble and hereditary titles
19 June 1790
Crown lands nationalised
7 September 1789
Church lands nationalised
2 November 1789
400 million worth land
Assignats printed
December 1789
The Clerical Oath
27 November 1790
“turning point” - McPhee
Religious liberty granted to protestants
24 December 1789
Clergy suffering HI
“the clergy were to suffer even more cataclysmically than the nobility” - William Doyle
Decree on uniform tariff
31 October 1790
“the most important contribution of the National Assembly” - John Hall Stewart
Common system of measurement introduced
May 1790
Tithes abolished
11 august 1789