CHRONOLOGY - KEY EVENTS (SIGNIFICANCE/WHY) + QUOTES Flashcards
CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERGY
QUOTE
Furet: “Turned the catholic church into an auxiliary of the state”
HOW / WHY
- The French Government was facing bankruptcy
- Before: The Church was the largest landowner in face (Owning 10% of the land)
- Before: Church land was confiscated
- Completed the destruction of monastic orders and banned monastic vows
CLERICAL OATH
QUOTE William Doyle (Revisionist): “forced the fellow citizens to choose: to declare themselves publicly for or against the new order”
QUOTE
Furet: “Refusal to take the oath was the first sign of popular resistance to the revolution”
HOW / WHY
- To swear an oath of loyal to the king, the nation and the state
- Forced people to either go against the moral principles and faith or accept the new French. This therefore, divided people into groups
- Links to the King’s ambivalence as a Christian King. His own personal disapproval of the clerical oath
D’ALLARDE LAW
HOW / WHY
- Align legislation with economic realities
PAPAL BULL CHARITAS
QUOTE
Pope Pius: “urge you not to abandon your religion… only religion which bestows life eternal”
HOW / WHY
- Increased tension between the Church and the revolutionary state
- Due to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Clerical Oath
- Catholics cannot compromise with the state and remain members of the Church
EASTER MASS AT SAINT CLOUD
HOW / WHY
- Actively went against everything that represents the clerical oath
- The people of Paris continue to grow suspicious about the King’s loyalty to the state.
MANTUA CONFERENCE
HOW
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LE CHAPELIER LAW
QUOTE Peter McPhee (Post-revolutionist) “A commitment to economic liberalism”
QUOTE
Stewart: The National Constituent Assembly left the workers “at the mercy of their employers”
HOW / WHY
- In relation to economic factors
FLIGHT TO VARENNES
QUOTE
Thomas Paine “can never give back its confidence to a man who … perjured to his oath”
QUOTE
Tackett “Louis was denounced as a liar, a coward, a traitor”
QUOTE
Tackett: The image of the king “now smashed and destroyed forever”
HOW
WHY
QUOTE
PADUA CIRCULAR
HOW / WHY
- External intervention / threats
3 CHAMP DE MARS
QUOTE Rude (Marxist) “Marked an important stage in the struggle for power”
QUOTE
Rude (Marxist) “Seen as the culmination of a process…”
HOW
WHY
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DECLARATION OF PILINITZ
HOW
WHY
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CONSTITUTION OF 1791 - signed by Louis
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WHY
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4 PROTEST
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LA PATRIE EN DANGER
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BRUNSWICK MANIFESTO
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