Cahiers de Doleances & Political Pamphlets

Question 1

Number of political pamphlets

Answer 1

4000 pamphlets were widely distributed

Question 1

Expectations of the Cahiers

Answer 1

1) Fiscal reforms
2) For the EG to be a regular occurrence
3) Internal trade reforms
4) Reforms to the church to support Parish priests

Question 2

Adcock - Political pamphlets

Answer 2

‘one of the strongest short-term influences on public opinion before the revolution’

Question 3

Judy Anderson - ‘What is the Third Estate?’

Answer 3

‘the most powerful and influential attack on the social and political order of France’

Question 4

Impacts of the political pamphlets (2)

Answer 4

1) Ideas of the enlightenment were spread
2) Gave birth to the mass radicalisation of an eager reading public

Question 5

Abbe Sieyes published ‘What is the Third Estate?’

Answer 5

1) January 1789
2) Attacked the despotic nature of France
3) Suggested that the Third Estate already made up the entirety of the nation, which encouraged the deputies at the Third Estate to legitimately declare a representative national assembly

Question 6

David Andress - Cahiers de Doleances

Answer 6

the expression of France from below