AOS1: Causes Of Revolution (Popular Movements) Flashcards
Day of Tiles
1) Date
2) What happened
3) Importance
1) 7th June, 1788
2)
- Troops gather to arrest parlementaires in Grenoble
- Crowds stop troops by throwing tiles at them from roofs
3)
- Breakdown of royal authority/helplessness of military force against urban people
- First physical rebellion against ancien regime
Reveillon Riots
1) Date
2) What happened
3) Importance
1) 28th April, 1789
2)
- Reveillon rumoured to be lowering wages of workers
- Workers rebelled, destroying Reveillon’s factory + manor
3)
- Sign of future rebellious acts to come
- Opposition to opression
Fall of the Bastille
1) Date
2) What happened
3) Importance
1) 14th July, 1789
2)
- Parisian mobs storm hospital and gather munitions
- Storm Bastille, are shot at by de Launay’s guards
- De Launay eventually surrenders, Bastille falls
3)
- Symbol of despotism/absolutism destroyed
- New government (Commune de Paris) in Paris formed (Bailly = Mayor)
- Power of the urban workers displayed
- Initiated similar uprisings (Great Fear)
The Great Fear
1) Date
2) What happened
3) Importance
1) July-August, 1789
2)
- Peasants rose up against landowners
- Mass destruction of chateaux + burning of feudal dues
- Louis accepts tri-colour cockade, seen as endorsing rebellion
3)
- Louis becomes ‘King of the French not ‘King of France’
- Brutal distinctions made (Patriots v Enemies)
- Widespread acceptance of revolution
October Days
1) Date
2) What happened
3) Importance
1) 5-6 October, 1789
2)
- 5th October: 7,000 Women march on Versailles, demanding bread + NA demands to be accepted
- That night, women storm the palace, killing guards
- King + Queen protected from mob my Lafayette, who publicly accepts them (kisses Antoinette’s hand)
- Louis agrees to go to Paris, essentially becomes prisoner
3)
- Altered balance of power (people control King)
- Royal family now prisoners
- Three powers emerge (King, National Assembly, The People/Menu Peuple)
