Build Up To Terror March 1793-> Flashcards
When was the CGS created?
What was its purpose?
October 1792
Administrating justice
When was the levee en masse?
March 1793
What war time controls were established in March 1793?
Committees de surveillance
Revolutionary tribunal
Representatives en mission (82)
19th March 1793
Summary execution decree
When was the CPS established?
What was it?
6th April 1793
War cabinet, control over CGS and national convention
Initially run by Danton
Cause of rising prices in early 1793
British blockade of ports
How had average prices risen?
Risen by 90% from 1791 to 1793
3rd May 1793
8000 sans-culottes stormed the convention demanding price controls
Led to first law of general maximum
Sans-culottes and Robespierre
Took advantage of their anger towards prices and militant behaviour to assist his plans to bring down the girodins
Role of Marat in downfall of girodins
Blamed girodins for France’s problems in his article L’Ami du Peuple
Arrested by girodins and tried before revolutionary tribunal
Acquitted after 12 days which was celebrated by sans-culottes
How did Danton act upon Marat’s arrest?
Portrayed the girodins are enemies of the revolution
9th-12th March
Attacks on girodin printing presses due to marats article
26th May 1793
Call for rising against corrupt Girondin deputies
Thousands of national guards stormed the convention demanding girodin expulsion
2nd June 1793
Crowd of 80,000 gathered
29 girodin ministers expelled
What caused the federalist revolt?
Expulsion of girodins
Reaction to centralising Jacobin power
What happened during federalist revolt?
29th May 1793 jacobin officers forced out of office in Lyons
June 1793 Similar expulsions in Toulon, Boulogne and Marseilles
Toulon federalist revolt
Became a royal ir uprising
Called on support from Anglo-Spanish troops
Major naval base - 26 ships (1/3 of French navy)
December 19th 1793 Napoleon put down the uprising
Why was the rising in the Vendee inevitable?
Near chouan rebellions
Rural conservative area
Strongly catholic area - large number of refractory priests
Bourgeoise land-owners had raised rents
Peasants worse off than they had been in the Ancien regime
What triggered the rising in the vendee ?
A levy for 300,000 men in Angers
March 1793
Reaction to the levee in the vendee?
14th March a catholic and royal army formed and took over Cholet
Massacres of local officials, Juring priests and national guardsmen
Convention reaction to rising in the vendee?
May 1793 Forced to send 30,000 men from the troops
1st August declared destruction of the vendee
6th September 100,000 troops arrived at Nantes
By December the majority of the Vendéean army had been crushed
