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Chapter 12 - The Spread Of The Terror Flashcards

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1
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How many victims of the Terror were there between 1792 and 1794?

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40,000

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How many of these were from the guillotine?

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17,000

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3
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What was the guillotine seen as?

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Was a new ‘humane’ method of execution now a sign of oppression

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When was the period of ‘The popular Terror’?

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Sept - Oct 1793

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5
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What law was established in Sept?

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Law of Suspects

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Before Sept how many people had the Tribunal sent to the guillotine?

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66

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7
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How many had they sent 3 months after this?

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180
(Only in Paris)

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What had the desire for killing by the sc been inspired by?

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The killing of the King
Political agitators - Herbert

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9
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What was made in response to the sc pressure?

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Show trials

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10
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Who was first to be tried?

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Marie Antoinette

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11
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What was she accused of?

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Orgies
Squandering govt money
Conspiracy against int + ext secuity of state
Sharing intelligence with enermy
Incest with her son

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12
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Which crime was she not found guilty of?

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Incest with her son

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13
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When was she guillotined?

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16 Oct

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14
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What was the verdict of the 21 expelled Girodin leaders?

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All condemned to death and guillotined 31 Oct

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15
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What was said in a speech from the CPS by Saint -Just 10 Oct?

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‘The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace’

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16
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What was the campaign used across the departements?

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  • local watch commitees (comites de surveillance)
  • rev armies to stop federalists + counter-rev activities
  • spies + agents from Comittee of General Security
  • > 100 representants-en-mission to pursue rev cause
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17
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What happened even though activities were overseen by the CPS?

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Officials and groups took law into their own hands, some acted with savagery

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18
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What were the worst affected areas?

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Vendee + Toulon + Lyons

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19
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What happened in the Vendee?

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7873 guillotined
2000 mass drownings (some nuns and monks in ‘mock marriages’)

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What happened in Toulon?

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700-800 prisoners shot or slain by bayonet in a massacre on Toulon’s Champ de Mars

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21
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What happened in Lyons?

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Dec grape shot killed 2000
It was so brutal that the Convention ordered they ceased at the end of the month

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22
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What did the sc want to do with religion?

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Close churches
Destroy all religious signs + symbols

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23
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When did the Paris Commune made dechristianisation a policy?

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Oct

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24
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What replaced the crosses and religious ornaments that were destroyed and vandalised?

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Busts of Marat

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25
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What other actions were made to dechristianise?

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Churches stolen to do ‘mock ceremonies’
Bells + plates melted for coins or weapons
Street names changed
Attacks on remaining religious buildings meant they closed
Royal tombs secrated + their bones put into a common grave
People changed their names to be non-religious

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26
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What did lots of Clergymen do?

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Resigned

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27
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What was the Notre Dame Cathedral become known as?

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‘Temple of reason’

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28
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What was held there?

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‘Festival of Reason’
They worshiped an opera singer on a paper mache mountain holding a torch and they sung hyms

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29
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Was the festival authorised by the convention?

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No

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30
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Who thought faith could be a valuable ally?

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Robespierre

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31
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Who wanted an completely secular society?

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Fouche + Herbert

32
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What decree reinstated toleration on religion?

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‘liberty of cults’

33
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How many priests had already been forced to renounce their positions?

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20,000

34
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What was the situation by the end of 1793?

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Federalist revolt under control + war + economy (due to good harvest)

35
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Why were new laws put in place to strengthen the positions of the CPS + CGS?

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Robespierre + Montagnards thought F needed more ordered system of govt
It could control activities of sc who wanted more power + property - this didn’t help keeping support from big taxpayers + disruption from dechristianisation

36
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What did The Law of 14 Frimaire II do?

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Gave CPS centralised power
Departments only reposible for tax collection + public works
Armees revolutionaires disbanded
Popular societies + patriotic committees closed down

37
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What did the law also do?

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Destroyed sc influence by removing their most important channels for activity

38
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What did the 2 laws of Ventose do?

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Promised patriots a share of property + land seized from counter-revs
(but was carried out with little enthusiasm or ignored)

39
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Who were the two extremists?

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  • Herbert - complained R setting up a dictatorship + called for sc to rise against ‘those who oppress us’
  • Danton +Desmoulins - popular, suggested it was time for the Terror to be scaled back
40
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What did R argue there needed to be be for a ‘Republic of Virtue’?

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Self-sacrifice

41
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Who were declared publicly evil by Saint-Just?

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Herbertists + Indulgents

42
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What made the Herbertists arrested and executed?

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Rumours of a plot to massacre members of the NC

43
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When were the Indulgents then arrested?

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30 March

44
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When were Danton and Desmoulins guillotined?

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5 April

45
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What did the removal of extremist mean?

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Growing splits in the CPS and Convention

46
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What did members of the ‘Plain’ in the Conv favour?

A

Reduction of Terror
(But didn’t want to be labelled as Indulgents)

47
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What were R, Couthon + S-J known as?

A

A ‘Triumvirate’

48
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What did R do to rid the country of corruption?

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1000 guillotined
Prisons cleansed of refractory priests, nobles, men + women who couldn’t meet R moral standards

49
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What did R announce in mar 1794?

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New series of festivals celebrating Republican virtues

50
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What was he trying to make them be rather than Athiest?

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Deist
(with a belief in the existence in God)

51
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What was R new State religion called?

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The cult of the Supreme Being

52
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What was shown in the festival of the Supreme Being?

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Dancing
Parade
Speech on Republican virtues
Statue of Atheism burned to show wisdom
Liberty tree
Statue of Hercules

53
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How was the war going in 1794?

A

Well as they were winning most wars

54
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What started the intensifying of the Terror?

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The Law of 22 Prairial

55
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What did the Lof22P do overall?

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Made convictions easier by simplifying judicial process

56
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What was outlined in Lof22P?

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  • ‘enemies of the people’ put in front of Parisian Rev Tribunal
  • Citizens denounce any suspects
  • Trials no longer than 3 days
  • No witness or defence, juries judge on accusation and accused defence
  • 2 verdicts = acquittal or death
  • Convention’s deputies immunity from prosecution disappeared
57
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What months were the Great Terror?

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Jun - Jul 1794

58
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How many death sentences and acquittals were there in this time?

A

DS = 1284
A = 278

59
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Why was this phase of the Terror more classed based?

A

Excutions:
Nobles = 35%
Clergy = 25%
Bourgeoisie = 40%

60
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What other measures were looked at by R?

A

Maximum wage set - angered workers
Rise in price of bread as farmers planted less

61
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Why was the CGS hostile?

A

Still subordinate to CPS
Weren’t consulted over Lof22P
R + S-J set up separate surveillance and police network to hunt for counter-revs (job of CGS)

62
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Why was the CPS hostile?

A

S-J argued with Carnot about military tactics
S-J annoyed not being involved with Lof22P
Deputies scared R turning into dictator

63
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Why was the local govt breaking down?

A

Overload of work + atmosphere of fear

64
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Who disagreed with the Cult of Supreme Being?

A

Catholic Priests + Athiests

65
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What is Thermidor?

A

July

66
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What did R stop doing in July?

A

Attending CPS meetings

67
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Why did he say he couldn’t attend?

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He said he needed time to think

68
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What did this make people?

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More suspicious
Deputies carried pistols and employed bodyguards + spies

69
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What happened 8 Thermidor?
(26 Jul)

A

R gave last speech to NC accusing people in govt of conspiring against ‘public liberty’ and suggested for more purges but refused to mention the names who he was accusing

70
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What happened 9 Thermidor?
(27 Jul)

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S-J wanted to say a speech but accusations and ‘Down with the tyrant’ chants interrupted him
A decree to arrest R + his bro, S-J, Couthon, Le Bas and were taken to separate prisons for the night

71
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What fraction of people responded in the sections to defend R?

A

1/3

72
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What did the Commune manage to do?

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Liberate R + other deputies

73
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What was then sent by the Convention?

A

A force to retake them

74
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What happened in the room they were found?

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  • Le Bas = shot himself + died
  • A’s bro = out the window + broke leg
  • Couthon = in wheelchair down stairs + survived
  • R = shot through jaw
  • S-J = taken without resistance
75
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What happened 10 Thermidor?
(28 Jul)

A

R + 22 associates found guilty
All apart from Le Bas went to guillotine that day

76
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In total how many Commune members lost their lives?

A

87/95

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