Final Quotes :DDDDD Flashcards
Furet on the August Decrees
established what the property owning society dreamed of
Robespierre on August Decrees
The Revolution is finished
Judy Anderson on DORMAC
the foundation document of the new society
Peter McPhee on DORMAC
a statement of bourgeoise idealism
DORMAC on the rights of man
natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man
DORMAC on equality
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights
Judy Anderson on the Fundamental Principles Decree
foreshadowed the Constitution of 1791
Abbe Sieyes on Passive and Active Citizens
those others who contribute nothing to sustaining the public establishment should not be allowed to influence public life actively
Peter McPhee on Le Chapelier Law
a commitment to economic liberalism
Furet on the effectiveness of the CCC
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
Furet on significance of the backlash to the Clerical Oath
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
Tackett on CCC effect
Challenged the fundamental basis of community life
JF Bosher on CCC
fated to divide the nation more than any other single measure
Denis Richet on Flight to Varennes
By fleeing, one king had renounced his sovereignty, while another king, the people, grimly looked on
Tackett on significance of the Flight to Varennes
would prove…
would prove a turning point in the history of the Revolution and of the French monarchy
Tackett on the King’s impact via the flight
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
1791 Constitution on the King
The person of the King is inviolable and sacred
1791 Constitution on sovereignty
Sovereignty is one, indivisible, inalienable, and imprescriptible
McPhee on the war
one of the major turning points of the revolutionary period
Adcock on war and violence
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
Hunt on Levee en Masse impacts
armed struggle within France was triggered only by the demands of the European war
Hampson on sans-culottes
advocates of simple solutions
Sutherland on economic conditions
Sympathy for economic hardship took second place to more pressing political conditions
Schama on the Vendee
the Vendean rebels were mirror images of the sans-culottes
Danton on Terror
Let us be terrible so that the people will not have to be
William Doyle on why the revolution became violent -terror
it was resistance that made the revolution become violent
Alfred Soboul on the necessity of terror
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.
Simon Schama on the nature of the revolution
From the very beginning - from the Summer of 1789 - violence was the motor of the revolution
Roux on behalf of the Enrages
For four years only the rich have profited from the revolution
Schama on the September Massacres
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
Rees on the Law of 14 Frimaire Year II
marked the complete reversal of the principles of 1789…and many of the characteristics of the ancien regime reappeared
Lefebvre on the Prairial Journee
This date should mark the end of the revolution; its mainspring had been broken
McPhee on the 1795 Constitution
a return to the provisions of ‘91
Rude on the values of the Thermidorian Period
the rulers of 1795, after a period of hesitation, tried to revert to the ‘principles of 1789
Furet on the failures of the Thermidorian Period
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
Adcock on the counter-revolutionaries in the provinces
while still believing in the basic principles of the revolution, disapprove of excessive radicalism
What did Peter McPhee call the DORMAC
A “blueprint”
DMG Sutherland on the DORMAC
DORMAC is what made the revolution revolutionary
