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Enlightenment

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“Enlightenment thought inspired the revolutionaries key political Innovations” - Doyle

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Salons

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“Played a crucial role in the formation of public opinion” - Doyle

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Reforms on Fiscal system

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“Programmed the revolution to explode from over inflated expectations” - Schama

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Compte Rendu

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“Masterpiece of public relations but disaster for government finances” - Doyle

“Undermined the confidence when the truth came out” - Schama

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Attempts at Financial reform

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“Became the fuse that ignited the Revolution” - Schama

“Met with resistance because the need was not recognised” - Doyle

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Assembly of Notables
22 February 1787 - 25 May 1787

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“Highlighted aristocratic opposition to royal absolutism” - Furet

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Day of Tiles
7 June 1788

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“Revealed the deepening alienation of the people … set the tone for the revolutionary violence to come” - Schama

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Cahiers
January - April 1789

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” Revealed the nations shimmering resentment” - Schama

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Pamphlet wars

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“Served as the battleground where political ideas formed” - Tackett

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What is The Third Estate?
January 1789

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“Sieyes issued a ringing declaration of commoner capacity” - McPhee

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The Estates General
May 1789

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“Alienated the Third Estate and provoked it into exploding all together” - Schama

“Set in a motion that the Monarchy could no longer control” - Furet

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Revellion Riots
27 April 1789

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“Warning of the violent energy building within masses” - Schama

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Tennis Court Oath
20 June 1789

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“Beginning of the organised opposition to royal absolutism” - Rude

“Representing a clear break with the Ancien Regime” - Soboul

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The Royal Session
23 June 1789

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(Louis) “Incapable of facing the storm of revolution” - Schama

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Storming of the Bastille
14 July 1789

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“Neither government nor the revolutionaries could control the force unleashed” - Schama

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Food shortages + Poor wages

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“Symbol of wider economic malaise that characterised revolutionary France” - Schama

“Created a volatile environment in which th popular classes began to demand radical change” - Doyle

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The great fear

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“Spontaneous reaction of the rural population” - Doyle

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The Night of Patriotic Delirium
4 August 1789

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“panic reaction by the National Assembly to the Great Fear… hastened the dismantling of the Old Regime” - Lefebvre

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The August Decrees
5-11 August 1789

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“Born out of panic but became the cornerstone of the revolutions social and political transformation” - Lefebvre

“Eliminating the social hierarchy of the Old Regime” - McPhee

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DORMAC
26 August 1789

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“Statement of revolutionary principle and a political weapon against the old regime” - Doyle

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Women’s March to Versailles
5 October 1789

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“Response to hunger” - Schama

“Dramatic assertion of the new revolutionary principle that people themselves could drive political events” - Doyle

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy and Clerical Oath of Loyalty
12 July 1790 + 17 November 1790

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“By dividing the church it fractured French Society” - Furet

“Created a second large group of counter-revolutionaries where none had previously existed” - Schama

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Flight to Varennes
20 June 1791

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“Betrayal of the revolutionaries ideals, revealing the incompatibility of the Monarchy” - Soboul

“[Louis XVI] became not just a prisoner but an enemy of the people and the revolution” - Doyle

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Champ De Mars Massacre
17 July 1791

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“revealed fractions within the revolutionary momentum” - Doyle

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Jacobins

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“Transported the revolution from a struggle for freedom into a dictatorship” - Furet

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Declaration of Pillnitz

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“A bluff intended to intimidate the revolutionaries… only fanned the flames of revolutionary fever” - Lefebvre

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Constitution of 1791
August 1791

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“This was a democracy for property owners” - Adcock

“designed to consolidate the power of the Bourgeosie while keeping the popular masses at arms length” - Soboul

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International War

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“Consolidation of power in the hands of the most uncompromising revolutionaries” - Lefebvre

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Storming of Tuileries
10 August 1792

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“effective end of all attempts to preserve the old regime” - Rude

“Not just the fall of a palace; it was the fall of the monarchy itself.” - Schama

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September Massacres
2-6 September 1792

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“Violence became a central component to revolutionary legitimacy” - Schama

“Reflected the deep insecurity of the revolutionary regime” - Rude

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Destruction of Lyon
October 1793

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“Clear symptom of the revolution failing in uniting the entire country” - Furet

“Genocide carried out by the revolutionary government” - Secher

“an act of political necessity to revolutionary leaders” - Soboul

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Law of Maximum
29 September 1793

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“answered the demand for regulation of prices” - Soboul

“Its rigid enforcement only worsened the scarcity it was meant to alleviate” - Schama

“alienate both the bourgeoisie and rural producers” - Schama

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The Terror + Benefit
1793-1794

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“Violence was a motor of the revolution” - Schama

“Used to contain the people” - Lefebvre

“Inevitable response to the threats surrounding it” - Soboul

Benefit:
“saved France from invasion and civil war” - Rude

“cleared the way for revolutionary changes in property and a reorganization of social power” - Soboul

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Girondin expulsion
May 1793

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“A collective disaster for all Girondins” - Schama

“Lost their moral authority and public confidence as they resisted radical change” - Lefebvre

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Law of 22 Prairial
10 June 1794

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“Every citizen vulnerable to arbitrary execution” - Soboul

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Execution of Danton, Herbert etc
April 1794

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“The revolution began to devour its own children” - Doyle

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Robespierre execution
28 July 1794

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“The terror was Robespierre’s brainchild, he became a victim of the machine he helped construct, his downfall marked a return to moderation” - Furet

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Thermidor reaction

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“Rejection of extremism and desire for stability” - Doyle

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Constitution of year III
August 1795

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“Desire to avoid another terror overshadowed democratic principles” - Soboul

“Beginning of a form of representative government but with little trust in the masses” - Furet

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