FRANCE AOS 2 Quotes & Statistics Flashcards
Brunswick manifesto threat
If demands not met, the people involved would be held personally responsible with their lives, ‘to be punished by military law, without hope of pardon.’
Storming of the Tuileries stats
20,000 armed sans-culottes, plus the federal and national guards from the sections stormed Tuileries, 900 Swiss guards and 2000 untrustworthy national guard defended Tuileries
Storming of the Tuileries death toll
560 Swiss guards killed along with numerous civilians, 300 attackers killed
Danton’s encouragement for the September massacres
‘Citizens, no nation on earth has ever obtained liberty without a struggle. You have traitors in your bosom.’
Marat’s encouragement for the September massacres
‘Let the blood of traitors flow. That is the only way to save the country.’
September massacres death toll
Of 2700 prisoners in Paris, 1200-1400 died
Girondins sans culottes quote
‘Drinkers of blood’
Robespierre sans-culottes quotes
The sans-culottes ‘therefore made the revolution: it is they who have sustained it with success, it is they who will finish it.’
Condorcets argument to not execute the king
‘They will paint us as men greedy for blood… They will paint our revolution as leading to anarchy and disorder.’
Vote for execution of Louis
387-334
Oath refusal rate in the Vendee
90%
Danton on the committee of general security
‘To replace the supreme tribunal of the people’s vengeance.’ ‘Let us be terrible, in order that the people are not so.’
General Biron on the federalist revolt
‘They don’t want a king; they want a republic, but a rich and tranquil republic.’
Government response to federalist revolt
Committee of seven guillotined 26 people per day. By April 1794, 2000 men, women and children had been murdered.
National baths death rate
2000-4800 deaths
