Chapter 8: Journee 10 August, September Massacres, Elections Leading To The National Convention Flashcards
Who marched to the Tuileries palace on 10 Aug 1792?
20,000 sans-culottes
2,000 federes
Some radical National Guards
What did the careful planning of the journee of 10 Aug 1792 allow for?
Both sides well armed
Who defended the the palace on the 10 Aug 1792?
Loyal National Guardsmen
Some gendarmes
Some Swiss guards
Where was Louis convinced to hide during the journee of 10 Aug 1792?
The Assembly
How was the mob able to easily surge into the courtyard on 10 Aug 1792?
Many National Guards defected upon seeing mob
What triggered the start of the 2-hour battle?
one shot fired
How many sans-cullotes & federes were killed on 10 Aug 1792?
How many of the Swiss Gurd were killed?
Nearly 1,000
Nearly all
What were the immediate effects of the journee of 10 Aug 1792?
King & fam removed & taken to Temple prison
King temporality suspended
Active & passive ended
After the journee of 10 Aug 1792, what was promised?
Convention, elected by all men over 25
Who was made Minister of Justice after the journee of 10 Aug 1792?
Danton, a sans-culottes favourite
Why was a committee of ministers set up after the journee of 10 Aug 1792?
By who?
To take executive power until new elections
Danton, Minister of Justice
What were the laws that Louis vetoed that were immediately put into force after the creation of the committee of ministers?
Special tribunal court to prosecute traitors
Refractory priests banished
Who was against the actions taken after the journee of 10 Aug 1792?
What did he attempt to do?
Lafayette
Bid to restore const
Gained little support
Fled
Defected to Austrians
What created panic leading up to the September Massacres?
Enemy advances: Longwy fallen
Verdum under siege
Duke of Brunswick 2 weeks form Paris
Rising in the Vendee (200 killed)
To reduce panic before the September Massacres, Danton authorised house searches, what for?
weapons hidden by the ill disposed
When did Dandon launch a levee?
What did this do?
2 September 1792, before Sep massacres
enforced conscription on pain of death
What did the September Massacres consist of?
Started 2 September
5 days of frenzied killing
1,000-1,500 prisoners in the Parisian goals massacred
Who was targeted during the September Massacres?
All prisoners
Refectory priests
Political prisoners
Ordinary criminals
Monks, nuns, priests
Who were the perpetrators during the September Massacres?
Federes
Sans-culottes
What was the Legislative Assembly’s response to the September Massacres?
They did nothing to stop it
What was the outcome of the September Massacres abroad?
Confirmed fears of dangers of popular revolution
What was the effect of the September Massacres on the political groups?
Girondins blame Jacobins for indicting the violence
Increased split
What was the effect of the September Massacres on the balance of power?
Assembly & authorities were weak
Popularity of radical leaders increased (Danton & Robespierre)
What was the National Convention?
Created after the overthrow of monarchy as an emergency government
When were all adult males over 25 able to vote for the first time?
2nd stage of elections for the National Convention
Why were none of the Girondins elected to the National Convention in Paris?
Who were chosen instead?
Girondins were hostile to the Paris commune
Robespierre, Danton, Marat, Desmoulins
Who voted in the elections for the National Convention?
little turn out
Mostly same people who were active citizens despite it being removed
How were the electorates to the National Convention split?
Girondins
The Plain (sat in the middle)
Jacobins (Montagnards)
Who made up the Plain?
People who had prospered in the ‘new’ France:
Judges
Officials
Administrators
National Guard officers
When did the New convention open?
20 September 1792
What gave the new National Convention an air of optimism on 21 September 1792?
News French army won a victory at Valmy
