Definitions

Question 0

Corvée (*)

Answer 0

Tax on the peasantry in the form of forced labor (road construction). Abolished in the summer of 1789.

Question 1

Gabelle

Answer 1

French tax on salt

Question 2

Assignats (*)

Answer 2

First issued in December 1789 by the National Assembly as government bonds secured by the newly-confiscated lands of the clergy. Made into paper currency September 1790. Retired by the Directory on February 4, 1797.

Question 4

Refractory Clergy (*)

Answer 4

All clergy that did not take the oath to support the civil constitution of the clergy (July 12, 1790)

Question 6

Émigrés (*)

Answer 6

Over 150,000 in number, émigrés were French citizens who, by choice or by force, lived outside of France between 1789 and 1814. First group led by the Count d’Artois after the fall of the Bastille.

Question 7

First Coalition (*)

Answer 7

1792-1797 – After France declared war on Austria in April of 1792, the nations of Spain, Sardonia, Holland, Austria, Prussia, and England (SHAPES) formed the First Coalition to ally against French aggression. French reaction included the formation of the Committee of Public Safety the levée en masse.