Historian's Views Flashcards
William Doyle: (Revisionist) view on the violence
- ‘it was resistance that made the revolution become violent’
Soboul (Marxist): view on ideological foundations
- ‘the enlightenment undermined the ideological foundations of the established order’
Henri (Marxist): view on cause of revolution
- ‘ultimate cause of the revolution was the rise of the bourgeois’
William Doyle (Revisionist) on revolution as a whole
- ‘was.. the revolution worth it in material terms? for most ordinary french subjects, turned by it into citizens, it cannot have been’
Fenwick and anderson on robespierre’s view towards the terror
he saw the terror as a ‘means of creating a new society in France’
William Doyle on the results of the flight to varennes
it ‘forced frenchmen to make choices that most would have preferred not to make’
Schama on what the revolution depended on
French Revolution ‘depended on killing to accomplish political ends’
Timothy Tackett on the Flight to Varennes
‘was one of the most dramatic and poignant moments in the entire revolution’
Soboul on the Sans Culottes
‘they had an altruistic nature about them’
Simon Schama on the terror
the Terror was ‘a war against commercial capitalism’
Fenwick and anderson believe the terror was a result of…
‘facing dissent within’
Tackett on the King’s influence over France after the flight to Varennes
he ‘never again had influence on affairs in France’
