Documents

Question 1

Compte de Renu

Answer 1

Jacques Necker, 1781

Question 2

“What is the Third Estate?”

Answer 2

Abbé Sieyès, January 1789
Pamphlet that argued that the third estate WAS the nation and yet remained under the thumb of the first estate (clergy) and the second estate (nobility) (For example, only 5% of the nation was controlling 2/3 of the vote)

Question 3

Cahiers de Doléances

Answer 3

The cahiers de doléances, or in English, “books of grievances”, were lists of complaints, suggestions, hopes, requests, demands, and opinions of French citizens concerning problems in the kingdom of France.

Question 4

Six Edicts

Answer 4

Jacques Turgot, 1776

Question 5

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Answer 5

August 26, 1789 …presented to the world a summary of the ideals and principles of the Revolution, and justified the destruction of a government based upon absolutism and privilege, and the establishment of a new regime based upon the inalienable rights of individuals, liberty, and political equality. The Declaration became the preamble to the Constitution of 1791.

Question 6

Constitution of 1791

Answer 6

Established a constitutional monarchy, though royal power was carefully restricted. Under this constitution, Louis became the first “functionary” of the state, given only a temporary suspensive veto of the laws proposed by the permanent legislative body (which the king could not disband). This constitution lasted only eleven months.

Question 7

Declaration of the Rights of Women (Olympe de Gouges)

Answer 7

1791– Document written in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man…, which did not include mention of women

Question 8

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Answer 8

July 12, 1790 – Decree that secularized the church in France

Question 9

Declaration of Pilnitz

Answer 9

August 1791–A plea to the the powers of Europe to join Austria and Prussia in their opposition to the French Revolution. Also a warning to France of possible military intervention.

Question 10

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Answer 10

Edmund Burke, 1790 –
Burke didn’t approve of the reconstruction of the French government and criticized the attempts of non-experienced people to run the government. He compared the unity and order of the American revolutionaries to the disunity and violence of those in France