Champ De Mars Massacre Flashcards
The Jacobin Club was formed in … under the name of …
1789, ‘Society of the friends of the Constitution’
Membership of the Jacobin Club reached …
1200 by July 1790
Rees on the Jacobin Club:
Members were ‘highly political men of action’
By the end of … there were … Jacobin clubs across France
1793, there were over 2000
The Cordeliers club was founded in
April 1790
Cordelier Club had an entrance fee of
2 sous per month
The Feuillant Club broke away from the Jacobin Club in…
July 1791
The Feuillant Club were known as …
‘the men of 1789’
On the … … Parisians gathered in the Champ de Mars
16 July 1791, 50,000 Parisians
Champ de Mars Massacre:
17 July 1791
Third Champ de Mars petition:
“A monstrous crib was committed; Louis XVI fled, he infamously abandoned his position… [The NA] has judged in advance that he was innocent… this was not the will of the people and we had thought that your greatest glory, even you duty, consisted of being agents of the public will”
Champ De Mars massacre results in…
50 deaths and 12 injuries
The Champ De Mars massacre started…
the struggle for supremacy between conservatives and radicals
‘Padua Circular’ released on…
6 July 1791
The ‘Padua Circular’ called…
on the European states to form a union to restore Louis to the throne and limit the Revolution.
