Dates and facts Flashcards
Louis exilés paris parlement
1770
France joins American War of independence by declaring war on britain
1778
Calonne tells Louis royal finances are insolvent
1786
Amount the french provided in America
By 1777 5 million livres
French population by 1780 compared to 1700
27 million - was 21.5 million in 1700
Increase in commerce between 1715 and 1771
- 8 fold - second to britain in trade worldwide
- trade with the colonies quadrupled
Increase in industrial production
doubled between 1715 and 1771
Silk harvest fail year?
1787
unemployment from 1788-1789
46000 in Amiens
10000 in Carcassonne
25,000 in Lyon
percentage of wage bread prices
Aug 1788 - 50%
July 1789 - 75% up to almost 88% for some
Bad harvest
1788
Debt 1788
4000 million
Assembly of notables is called
December 1786
Assembly of notables is dismissed
25 May 1787
Paris Parlement rejects Louis’ land tax reforms
2 July 1787
Louis and Brienne forced registration of tax reforms through using a lit de justice + Paris parlement declares it illegal
August 1787
Louis dismisses Calonne
April 1787
Assembly of Notables facts
144 members from the second estate and some clergy
Called in an attempt to reform the tax system
Who replaced Calonne and when
Brienne - May 1787
Louis exiled thé Paris Parlement to Troyes
May 1788
Louis abolishes parlements power to review legislation
5 May 1788
Louis summons Paris Parlement back
September 1788
Louis exilés his cousin duc d’Orleans by lettre du cache
November 1788
Louis pushes through more loans with lit de justice
1788
Louis promises to call Estates General by 1792
1788
Parlement issue the ‘Fundemental laws of the kingdom’ - when and about what
May 1788
- criticises thé lettre de cachet and they demand the Estates General is called to verify any tax reforms
Kings response to the fundamental laws
arrests two members of the Paris Parlement by lettre de cachet
May edicts - when and what
8 May 1788
- removed powers of parlements and putting it to local level courts
- set up new court of nobles appointed by the king who would take responsibility for registration of laws
Mob in Grenoble - when, name and why?
Day of tiles - June 1788
- response to May edicts demanding reinstatement of their local parlement
response to may edicts
- Provincial Parlements flooded royal court with remonstrances
- Paris Parlement led cries to end lettre de cachet and imprisonment without trial
Brienne calls for larger don gratuit - when + what happens
June 1788
Church offer 1/4 of what was expected
Louis forces to call estates general - why
-short term loans dried up
- Brienne had to suspend payments from the royal treasury
THEY NEEDED MONEY