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Constitution of Year III created:
22 August 1795
McPhee on the Constitution of Year III:
“France was again to be governed by representative, parliamentary government”
McPhee on the Constitution of Year III (2):
It “marked the end of the revolution”
Madelin on the Terror:
“Fear was on every side”
Danton on the Terror:
“Perhaps the Terror once served a useful purpose, but it should not hurt innocent people”
Townson on the Law of Frimaire:
“It marked the complete reversals of the principles of 1789 … and many of the characteristics of the ancient regime reappeared”
Thibaudeau on the 9 Thermidor:
“all hearts embraced the most joyful hopes”
Doyle on the new new society:
“9 Thermidor marked … the rejection of a form of government”
Doyle on 1795:
“1795 was to be a year of revenge”
Vernigaud on the sans-culottes:
“idlers, men without work”
Fenwick and Anderson on Girondin deaths:
“the revolution had begun to devour its own children”
Vendee overnight posters:
“woe to those who announce conscription”
McPhee on the Vendee revolution:
It was not “counter revolutionary as such anti-revolutionary, the revolution so welcomed at the outset had brought nothing but trouble”
General Westermann:
“The Vendee is no more, it has died beneath the hooves of our horses, together with its men, wife and children”
Doyle on the King’s execution:
“Regicide meant there was no going back”
Schama on the Terror:
“The Terror … operated with crushing effect on areas that were the centres of revolt”
Girondin deputy on Vendee terror:
A woman was “condemned to sit several hours under [a] suspended blade which shed on her, drip by drip, the blood of a deceased”
Rude on the NC:
“the sans-culottes intervened … by the innovations of ministers”
Schama on king Louis and war:
victory in war would be a means “to concentrate power in his hands … and even give him the military force to restore power at home”
McPhee on war:
“the war … immediately raised the hopes and stakes of the counter-revolution”
Doyle on the Clerical Oath:
“The oath of the clergy … forced citizens to choose: to declare themselves for or against the new order”
Furet on the Clerical Oath:
“The refusal to take the oath was the first sign of popular resistance to the Revolution”
Abbe Baude:
“where the … laws of the Church are concerned, I recognise no superior … than the Pope”
