Collapse Of The Constitutional Collapse

Question 1

The Jacobins

How many clubs did they have by August 1790

Answer 1

The club had 152 affiliated ‘Jacobin’ clubs across France

Question 2

How many members did the Jscobins have by the end of 1790

Answer 2

1000

Question 3

When did the jacobins break off to be the Feuillant club

Answer 3

July 1791

Question 4

What were the big left wing club formed in April 1790

Answer 4

Cordeliers club

Question 5

Famous cordeliers

Answer 5

Danton, Desmoulins and Marat

Question 6

What newspaper did Marat write

Answer 6

L’Ami du Peuple

Question 7

How were the political clubs influential

Answer 7

Pressured assembly with petitions
Had big memberships
Platform for propaganda
Produced revolutionary pamphlets

Question 8

Where did the king Flight to

Answer 8

Varennes

Question 9

How was the kings divine right challenged

Answer 9

He was made king of the french rather than king of France

His power Came from the people not divine right

Question 10

By June 1791 the king was effectively a

Answer 10

Prisoner in the Tuileries

Question 11

What rlly upset him but he accepted December 1790

Answer 11

The civil constitution of clergy

He was a religious dude

Question 12

Whose death upset him who’d acted as a go between the king and the assembly

Answer 12

Mirabeau
He was a go between
2nd April 1791

Question 13

What was the Saint-Cloud incident

Answer 13

April 1791 king want to spend Easter at nearby palace of Saint-Cloud where they would have taken mass given by a refractory priest but they were prevented from leaving Tuileries but were stopped by mob flanked by radical national guardsmen

Question 14

Date of Saint Cloud

Answer 14

18th April 1791

Question 15

Who wanted Louis to assert his authority

Answer 15

MA

Noble emigres who he was in contact with

Question 16

Who did MA have the assurances of to help the royal family

Answer 16

Leopold, her brother, who’s succeeded Joseph II in 1790 in Austria

Question 17

After the Saint-Cloud incident, the King and his advisers decided what

Answer 17

They should flee from Paris

Question 18

When did the attempted flee from Paris take place

Answer 18

The night of 20/21 June

Question 19

What about the flight of Varennes did Louis ignore his advisers about

Answer 19

Louis rejected his advisers’ choice of route and suggestion that the royal family should travel separately

Question 20

Why was Louis rejection of his advisers advice bad

Answer 20

All the family being in one coach meant that the weight slowed the journey down

Question 21

Where was Louis found

Answer 21

Varennes

Question 22

What happened when Louis was found

Answer 22

National Assembly arrived and escorted the royal family back to Paris

Question 23

Who managed to escape the flight to Varennes

Answer 23

The kings younger brother the duc de Provence

Question 24

What did the flight to Varennes make the people’s le question abt the king

Answer 24

Made people doubt the king’s sincerity

Question 25

What was wrong with the kings attempt to justify the flight to Varennes

Answer 25

Contained a list of complaints about how he was treAted at Tuileries and spoke of his opposition to many of the assembly’s decrees which he’d officially accepted
For example his limited supsensiry veto on legislation

Question 26

What did the NA decide to do with Louis after the Flight to Varennes

Answer 26

Debated deposing him but ended up choosing a temporary suspension on the 16th July 1791 until new constitution was ready and he had signed and swore to uphold it

Question 27

After the flight to Varennes and Louis was suspended how long did they plan temporarily suspend him for

Answer 27

Until new constitution drawn up and he had signed it and sworn to uphold it

Question 28

How many deputies abstained from voting in favour of suspending the King’s power on the grounds that such a measure went too far

Answer 28

290

Question 29

Which club organised the Champs de Mars

Answer 29

The Cordeliers Club and other more extreme societies

Question 30

Date of Champ de Mars

Answer 30

17th July 1791

Question 31

What was Champ de Mars supposed to be

Answer 31

A place where people could sign a petition calling for the establishment of a republic

Question 32

Why did they choose champ de Mars

Answer 32

Just theee days earlier it had been the site of the ‘Feast of the Federation’ and in the centre stood the ‘Altar of the Fatherland’ ; a fitting platform for the petition

Question 33

How many people attended the Champ de Mars

Answer 33

6000

Question 34

Who did The Assembly and moderate Paris Commune choose to send to ensure order at Champ de Mars

Answer 34

Lafayette and the National Guards

Question 35

What did the National Guard do at Champ de Mars

Answer 35

When warning shots produced no result the Guards fires directly on the crowds

Question 36

What effect did the National Guard and Lafayette have on the mob at Champ de Mars

Answer 36

Lad and National Guard went in to disperse mobs but stones were thrown at the National Guards

Question 37

How many killed at Champ de Mars

Answer 37

Not known but probably around 50

Question 38

What did the death of people at Chanps de amara signify to people

Answer 38

To radicals this was a betrayal of the people by the moderates: a ‘massacre’

Question 39

What did the Austrians decide to do following Louis failed flight

Answer 39

Austrians felt they had to something in support and issued the Declaration of Pillnitz

Question 40

Date of Pillnitz

Answer 40

27th August 1791

Question 41

Declaration of Pillnitz declared by whom

Answer 41

Austrian Emperor Leopold II

Frederick-William III of Prussia

Question 42

What did the Declaration of Pillnitz say

Answer 42

• situation of King of F of ‘common interest’ to all nations
• powers of french crown should be restored
• they were ready to use force to bring about the restoration of royal power