French Revolution Flashcards
What was thee French Revolution
A revolutionary period in France between 1789 and 1799 that materialized radical alterations to their political landscape, abolishing centuries old institutions such as monarchy and fuedalism.
What were some of the reasons behind the French Revolution?
A resentment by the bourgeoisie because of its lack of political power, the peasants growing unwilling to maintain support for the feudal system, the radical dissemination and promulgation of enlightenment philosophy and values, the accumulation of radical debt partly because of their participation in the American Revolution and food shortages because of the populous nature of the country.
How did King Louis attempt to solve the financial problems
By delegating Charles-Alexander de Calonne to construct a financial reform package that eliminated some of the nobles’ tax exemptions.
What were the reactions from the aristocracy and nobility towards this financial reform package introduced by Charles?
Significant unrest that influenced King Louis to defenestrate Charles as the financial minister and appointed Jacques Necker, while promising the aristocracy to convene the Estates General.
What was the Estates General
A legislative assembly designated with the task of engaging in consultation about the grievances that belonged to each individual class of society. It had a separate assembly for each of the three classes represented by delegates (clergy, nobility and commoners)
What was the instantaneous dispute that erupted at the Estates General?
The disagreement was whether they should vote by head, giving the advantage to the Third Estate, or by estate, in which case the two privileged orders of the realm might outvote the third?
What was the National Assembly
a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General out of indignation from their conceptualization of their gratuitous and hellacious treatment they received from the Estates-General.
What were the aspirational objectives of this National Assembly?
To promise not to disperse until a new Constitution was devised.
How did King Louis respond to the creation of this National Assembly?
He contemptuously and invidiously encouraged the Aristocracy and clergy to join in, however surreptitiously conceived of methedological machinations to deploy military personnel and dissolve it.
What led to the Third Estate staging a seditiously rebellious insurrection at the Bastille, a fortress in Paris?
The dissemination and promulgation of the rumors of an ‘Aristocratic Conspiracy’ led by the King, the deployment of military personnel around Paris and the defenestration of Necker are all causal constituents.
What was the insurrection of Bastille and when did it occur?
July 14th 1789. It was a seditiously rebellious and subversive insurrection staged at a fortress in Paris titled Bastille, which symbolically and emblematically represented tyranny in France, staged by the commoners.
What did the National Constituent Assembly accomplish on August 4th and August 26th?
4th; decreed the abolish of the feudal system. 26th; introduced to Declaration of the Right of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming liberty, equality and the inviolability of property.
What did the National Constituent Assembly do to the land of the Roman Catholic Church?
Underwent the Nationalization of the land and effectuated the mass distribution of said land to the Bourgeoise and peasantry to act as geographical compensation for the debt they accrued.
