Chapters 18-19 Flashcards
Causes of French Revolution
Financial crisis from wars, inability to tax
Compte Rendu
Jacques Necker 1781-Public report that says to ignore American Rev. debt, stop paying pensions to nobles, and no taxes then gov. would have surplus of $
Estates General 1789
Assembly of Notables said only the Estates General could decide on financial proposals, Louis XVI asks for grievances
Charles Calonne financial reforms
Free internal trade, no trade barriers, lower taxes (gabelle) corvee from manual to monetary due, unersal land tax including nobles and church (taille)
1st and 2nd Estates limit 3rd Estate
Assembly of Nobles-voting by representatives, 300 each estate
Parliament of Paris-Voting by estates (1 each)
Royal Council Decision-Doubling the Third
Cahiers de Doleances
Indirect taxes, government waste, hunting rights, absolutism, church, property ownership, Estate General’s meeting, Marie Antionette
National Assembly
3rd Estate and reform-minded 1-2 estate-Agree to meet until limit powers of king
Tennis Court Oath
June 20 1789-Will NOT stop meeting until consitution is written
Riots in 1788 and 1789
Louis XVI mobilized troops, bread riots
Storming of the Bastille
Believe guns and political prisoners-none-Start revolution July 14 1789
The Great Fear
Fear royal troops take food, fight against 1-2 estates-shows lower classes’ tipping point
Night of August 4th
Constitution inhibited by things-“Feudalism is abolished” no privileges or social classes
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
Aug. 27 1789-Inspired by Declaration of Independence, Due process, popular sovereignty, etc.
Jean Paul Marat
“Friend of the People” anti-gov propoganda “Let them eat cake” incited the October Days
October Days
“Fierce and fish” ladies take up arms when false rumor of king stamping on tricolor
National Consituent Assembly
Constituional Monarchy, used to be National Assembly, Laissez-faire
Constitution of 1791
Limited monarchy, legislative Assembly, members of NCA can’t be part of it, laws, taxes, war/peace
Declaration of the Rights of Women
Olympe de Gouges-Addressed to queen
Economic reforms in Reconstruction of France
Administrative (departments) Economic (deregulate grain trade, metric system, abolish trade unions, Assignats) Religious (Chruch>State)
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
July 1790- Church under state control, Jurying clergy (took oath) Refractory (didn’t take-majority)
Roman Catholic Church views on Revolution
Condemned revolution and constitution via Pope Pius VI
Emigres
Self-exiles, nobles/royal to Austria and Netherlands
Jacobins
Montagnard-Radical liberals, favor republics, Rousseauian decision, Girondists-conservatives, constitutional monarchy-most authority
Sans Culottes
Wanted no food shortages, social equality, republicans. Storming of the Tuileries. Paris Commune
September Massacres
Stormed cities to squahs counterrevolutionary threats in prision-executions on spot w/o due process. >1,200 executed, most peasants. Discredited revolution abroad
Declaration of Pillnitz
Leopold II and Frederick William II (Austria and Prussia) promise if royal family harmed they will invade. Pushed revolution into radical course of action
National Convention
Named after American’s, Write democratic consitution and declare France a republic. “Citizen Capet” Jan. 21 1793 Louis XVI beheaded
Countries at war w/ France
Austria, Prussia, Spain, Britain
Edmund Burke
REflections on the Revolution in France-Said applied blind rationalism, forecasted further turmoil and deaths of king and queen
Partitions of Poland
1793, 1795-Result of fears that revolutionary ideas spread to Poland, Russian invasion to ensure Poland remained reliant on Russia