Early reforms

Question 1

Main administrative reforms (2)

Answer 1

1) France restructured into 83 departments, decentralising power away from Paris
2) Introduction of ‘Active’ and ‘Passive’ citizens

Question 2

Main social reforms (2)

Answer 2

1) French subjects become citizens
2) Abolition of all titles and distinctions

Question 3

Main legal reforms (2)

Answer 3

1) Introduction of the Guillotine (1792)
2) Decree on Reorganising the Judiciary (16 August 1789) which abolishes the old system of law

Question 4

Main military changes (2)

Answer 4

1) Promotion by merit over title
2) Over 2000 officers fled France after the Flight to Varennes

Question 5

Main economic reforms (5)

Answer 5

1) Internal custom barriers abolished (1790)
2) Common weights and measures (1793)
3) Feudal taxes replaced with taxes based on land, goods and trade
4) d’Allarde law passed in March 1791 dissolving all guilds and creating a free market
5) Le Chapelier Law passed on 14 July 1791 limiting the rights of workers and favouring the bourgeois

Question 6

Peter McPhee - Le Chapelier Law

Answer 6

‘a commitment to economic liberalism’