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
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
12 July 1790
The Papal Brief
13 April 1791
made his comments 8 months too late
“we urge you not to abandon your religion” - Pope Pius VI
Non refractory
during
took the oath
1/3 took the oath
109 priests and 2 bishops
Refractory priests
non juring
refused the oath
2/3 didn’t take the oath
The Kings flight from Paris
20 June 1791
“anyone who applauds the king will be beaten, anyone who insults him will be hanged” – the assembly
The Champ de Mars
17 July 1791
50 dead
The Declaration of Pillnitz
27 August 1791
1791 Constitution
September 1791
Legislative Assembly
1 October 1791 - 20 September 1792
745 new deputies
Makeup of the legislative assembly
Right: 264 deputies
Centre: 345 deputies
Left: 136 deputies
Legislative assembly HI
“the new representatives…were fully committed to the success of the revolution” - Timothy Tackett
Declaration of war on Austria
20 April 1792
Poor start to war?
only 140,000 troops
1/3 officers with the enemy
May 1792 an entire cavalry unit captured and defected
Austrian war HI
“major turning points of the revolutionary period” - McPhee
First invasion of the Tuileries
20 June 1792
The Homeland in Danger Decree
11 July 1792
The Brunswick Manifesto
25 July 1792
The second storming of the Tuileries
10 August 1792
20,000 people
Prussian forces enter France
16 August 1792
Austrian forces enter France
19 August 1792
Execution of Louis
21 January 1793
Declaration on terror
5 September 1793
“let terror be the order of the day”
