Final Quotes :DDDDD

Question 1

Furet on the August Decrees

Answer 1

established what the property owning society dreamed of

Question 2

Robespierre on August Decrees

Answer 2

The Revolution is finished

Question 3

Judy Anderson on DORMAC

Answer 3

the foundation document of the new society

Question 4

Peter McPhee on DORMAC

Answer 4

a statement of bourgeoise idealism

Question 5

DORMAC on the rights of man

Answer 5

natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man

Question 6

DORMAC on equality

Answer 6

Men are born and remain free and equal in rights

Question 7

Judy Anderson on the Fundamental Principles Decree

Answer 7

foreshadowed the Constitution of 1791

Question 8

Abbe Sieyes on Passive and Active Citizens

Answer 8

those others who contribute nothing to sustaining the public establishment should not be allowed to influence public life actively

Question 9

Peter McPhee on Le Chapelier Law

Answer 9

a commitment to economic liberalism

Question 10

Furet on the effectiveness of the CCC

Answer 10

The firm and deep-rooted adherence of Catholic opinion had meant that the Civil Constitution of the Clergy would not withstand the test of time

Question 11

Furet on significance of the backlash to the Clerical Oath

Answer 11

refusal to take the oath was the first sign of popular resistance to the Revolution. … The religious element was immediately transformed into a political issue

Question 12

Tackett on CCC effect

Answer 12

Challenged the fundamental basis of community life

Question 13

JF Bosher on CCC

Answer 13

fated to divide the nation more than any other single measure

Question 14

Denis Richet on Flight to Varennes

Answer 14

By fleeing, one king had renounced his sovereignty, while another king, the people, grimly looked on

Question 15

Tackett on significance of the Flight to Varennes
would prove…

Answer 15

would prove a turning point in the history of the Revolution and of the French monarchy

Question 16

Tackett on the King’s impact via the flight

Answer 16

the King greatly contributed to the destabilisation of the state…For a great many people the shock was brutal…They experienced a profound sense of desertion and betrayal

Question 17

1791 Constitution on the King

Answer 17

The person of the King is inviolable and sacred

Question 18

1791 Constitution on sovereignty

Answer 18

Sovereignty is one, indivisible, inalienable, and imprescriptible

Question 19

McPhee on the war

Answer 19

one of the major turning points of the revolutionary period

Question 20

Adcock on war and violence

Answer 20

the war was not just a war on the frontiers of France, but one of the motors driving the revolution inside France to become more radical

Question 21

Hunt on Levee en Masse impacts

Answer 21

armed struggle within France was triggered only by the demands of the European war

Question 22

Hampson on sans-culottes

Answer 22

advocates of simple solutions

Question 23

Sutherland on economic conditions

Answer 23

Sympathy for economic hardship took second place to more pressing political conditions

Question 24

Schama on the Vendee

Answer 24

the Vendean rebels were mirror images of the sans-culottes

Question 25

Danton on Terror

Answer 25

Let us be terrible so that the people will not have to be

Question 26

William Doyle on why the revolution became violent -terror

Answer 26

it was resistance that made the revolution become violent

Question 27

Alfred Soboul on the necessity of terror

Answer 27

The Terror, therefore, was in essence an instrument of national and revolutionary defence against rebels and traitors. In this sense it was an important factor if victory was to be won.

Question 28

Simon Schama on the nature of the revolution

Answer 28

From the very beginning - from the Summer of 1789 - violence was the motor of the revolution

Question 29

Roux on behalf of the Enrages

Answer 29

For four years only the rich have profited from the revolution

Question 30

Schama on the September Massacres

Answer 30

The event which more than almost any other exposes a central truth of the French Revolution: its dependence on organized killing to accomplish political ends

Question 31

Rees on the Law of 14 Frimaire Year II

Answer 31

marked the complete reversal of the principles of 1789…and many of the characteristics of the ancien regime reappeared

Question 32

Lefebvre on the Prairial Journee

Answer 32

This date should mark the end of the revolution; its mainspring had been broken

Question 33

McPhee on the 1795 Constitution

Answer 33

a return to the provisions of ‘91

Question 34

Rude on the values of the Thermidorian Period

Answer 34

the rulers of 1795, after a period of hesitation, tried to revert to the ‘principles of 1789

Question 35

Furet on the failures of the Thermidorian Period

Answer 35

Politically, it brought only failure, for the regime to which it gave birth was soon to crumble undramatically and ingloriously under the mild assault of Bonaparte’s troops

Question 36

Adcock on the counter-revolutionaries in the provinces

Answer 36

while still believing in the basic principles of the revolution, disapprove of excessive radicalism

Question 37

What did Peter McPhee call the DORMAC

Answer 37

A “blueprint”

Question 38

DMG Sutherland on the DORMAC

Answer 38

DORMAC is what made the revolution revolutionary