Collapse of constitutional experiment

Question 1

Journee of 20 June

Answer 1

20 June 1792 - Around 8,000 sans-culottes march for Louis to withdraw vetoes and reinstate pro-war ministers. Louis puts on the bonnet rouge and made no promises but it easily dispersed.

Question 2

La patrie en danger

Answer 2

Decreed on 11 July 1792 in response to failures in war, e.g. 2 July 1792 - News reached Paris that Army of the North was in retreat.

Question 3

Speech

Answer 3

29 July 1792 - Robespierre makes a speech in the Assembly arguing for a republic.

Question 4

Journee of 10 August

Answer 4

10 August 1792 - 20,000 sans-culottes with 2,000 federes violently siege the Tuileries, killing most National Guard who didn’t defect.

Question 5

Immediate impact of 10 August journee

Answer 5

King labelled as ‘temporarily suspended’. Issued a decree to end distinction between active and passive citizens. New convention is promised.

Question 6

Defection

Answer 6

19 August 1792 - La Fayette defects to the Austrians.

Question 7

September Massacres

Answer 7

Danton decreed the ringing of the tocsin for a state of alarm after the news of the fall of Longwy reached Paris on 25 August 1792 and of Verdun on 1 September 1792. This led to 1,100 - 1,600 prisoners killed from 2-7 September 1792.