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Question 1

Over … days, …‘Robespierrists’ were executed

Answer 1

3 days, 100 Robespierrists were executed

Question 2

Thibaudeau on the happiness after Robespierre’s downfall:

Answer 2

“Immediately after 9 Thermidor all hearts embraced the most joyful hopes”

Question 3

Doyle on Robespierres downfall:

Answer 3

“The 9 Thermidor marked … the rejection of a form of government”

Question 4

By …, … Girondins were released

Answer 4

December 1794, the 73 Girondins who were imprisoned were released

Question 5

Law of 22 Paririal repealed:

Answer 5

1 August 1794

Question 6

Law of Suspects abolished:

Answer 6

End of 1794

Question 7

Revolutionary Tribunal abolished :

Answer 7

31 May 1795

Question 8

Revolutionary Commune of Paris abolished:

Answer 8

24 August 1794

Question 9

Jacobin Club closed:

Answer 9

12 November 1794

Question 10

Carrier executed for war atrocities (Drowning of Nantes)

Answer 10

16 December 1794

Question 11

Doyle on 1795:

Answer 11

“1795 was to be a year of revenge”

Question 12

From … to …, … ‘terrorists’ were killed

Answer 12

April to May 1795, 2000 terrorists executed

Question 13

Britain delivered … émigrés troops to invade Western France on:

Answer 13

10 June 1795, 4000 troops

Question 14

Pro-Federal monarchy invasion began :

Answer 14

26 June 1795

Question 15

Pro-Federal monarchy invasion defeated:

Answer 15

21 July 1795

Question 16

… émigrés executed

Answer 16

630

Question 17

Meat ration stood at … grams per person, every …

Answer 17

125 grams per person, every 10 days in 1794

Question 18

Between … and …, Assignat was worth … face value

Answer 18

August and December 1794, Assignat was worth 20% face value

Question 19

By …, prices had risen to … above … levels

Answer 19

By April 1795, prices had risen up to 750% above 1790 levels

Question 20

Sans-culottes break into the National Convention and demand an end to to the scarcity of bread on:

Answer 20

1 April 1795

Question 21

Prairial uprising:

Answer 21

20 May 1795

Question 22

Over … were exiled and … lost their citizenship rights in the Prarial uprising

Answer 22

10,000 were exiled and 1,700 lost their civil rights

Question 23

Lefebrve on the Prairial uprising:

Answer 23

“This date should mark the end of the Revolution”

Question 24

Louis XVII, The Dauphin’s death:

Answer 24

June 8 1795