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Chapter 12 Flashcards

1
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How many people were killed during during the terror 1792-1794

A
  1. 000

17. 000 guillotined

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Which stage was known as the “popular terror”

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Sep - December 93’

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Which law was passed on the 17th September 93’

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Law of Suspects

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4
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What was the impact of the law of suspects?

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September 1793

rapid increase in the number of trials (Revolutionary Tribunals)

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5
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How many cases were heard between Sep. and Dec. 93’

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500.000 cases

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6
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When did the show trials start?

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In October 93’

featuring Marie Antoinette, the 21 Girondins, Madame Roland and the duc d’Orleans

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7
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Which campaign was started on the 10th October 93’

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Saint Just’s “revolutionary until peace campaign”

  • comites de surveillance
  • armees revolutionnaries
  • representants en mission
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What were the noyades

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mass drownings on the River Loire (2000 executed)

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9
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What were the mitraillades

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Convicts killed by canons loaded with grape shot

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10
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How significant was the impact of the sans-culottes on the CPS and the Convention?

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significant impact as seen in

  • dechristianisation campaign driven by Herbert (policy of Paris commune)
  • November 93’ highpoint, “Festival of Reason”
  • Law of Suspects, Sept 93’
  • revolutionary calendar
  • Law of Maximum Sept 93’
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11
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What was the relationship between the Convention and the sans-culottes in late 93’

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Girondins - fearful of the excesses but did not acknowledge responsibility (Roland, Minister of the Interior)
-too many conflicting bodies
-Convention did not agree on “Festival of Reason”
issued the “liberty of cults” decree

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12
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law of Frimaire II

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December 93’
-centralised structure, CPS was supreme
-armees revolutionnaries disbanded from March 94’
popular societies and local committees were shut down

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Significance of the Law of Frimaire?

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removing sans-culottes channels of activity, reducing power and influence

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14
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Which fractions put pressure on the Convention in early 94

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Herbert- claiming Robespierre was setting up a dictatorship

Indulgents - Danton and Desmoulins, terror to be scaled back

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15
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What did Robespierre call for in early 94

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Republic of Virtue and end to ancien regime customs such as exhibited by the indulgents

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16
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When were Herbert and associates arrested and executed?

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24th March 94

17
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When were the indulgents executed?

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5th April 94

18
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Significance of the removal of rival factions

A

Dangerous position for the CPS
growing spilts
alientated extreme revolutionaries as well as moderates

19
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Who was known as the triumvirate?

A

Robespierre, Saint Just and Couthon

20
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Significance of the “cult of Supreme being”

A

June 94’
highpoint of Robespierre
masked some of the atmosphere of suspicion and fear

21
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Progress of the war in 1794

A

went well
success at Fleurus
French had regained the initative

22
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What was the significance of the Law of 22 Prarial

A

June 94’ - intensified the terror - Great Terror

  • revolutionary tribunals were replaced by Parisian revolutionary tribunal
  • Citizens to denounce any suspects
  • Trials were to take no longer than three days
  • Two possible verdicts (acquittal or death)
  • immunity from prosecution for deputies disappeard
23
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When was the Great Terror

A

June - July 94

24
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How many people were sentenced to death during the Great Terror?

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1284 death sentence just in Paris

25
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How was Robespierre’s position weakened?

A

CGS had become hostile to CPS
personal indifferences
Plain was uneasy about persecutions

26
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When were the 29 Girondin ministers arrested?

A

On June 2st 1793, pressure from sans-culottes

27
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Who was representant en mission in the Vendee

A

Carrier

28
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Who was representant en mission in Toulon

A

Barras and Freron

29
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Who was representant en mission in Lyons

A

Herbois and Fouche

30
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How many people were executed in the Vendee

A

7873

31
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How many people were executed in the Toulon?

A

700-800 prisoners killed

32
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How many people were executed in the Lyons

A

2000 executed

33
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Where did the noyades take place

A

In the Vendee

34
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Where did the mitraillades take place

A

Lyons

35
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What was Robespierre view on faith?

A

Valuable ally in the maintenance of order and control

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