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History - France Flashcards

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Ancient regime

Fealty Oath

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“You are mine, to do with as I wish” (the hand of the lord is kissed as he says this by those lower then him)

Histiography - Gregory S. Brown

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Ancient regime

Sovreign power

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Sovereign power in his Kingdom Belongs to the King alone… he is accountable only to God for the exercise of supreme power

Primary - Lamoignan

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Enlightenment and New ideas

Oath

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To take an oath “to prefer virtue, truth and justice over everything”

Histiography - Simon Schama

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Enlightenment and New ideas

Morals

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Not of Nobles, but of moral

Histiography - Simon Schama

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Enlightenment and New ideas

Third Estate

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In January 1789, Abbe Sieyes’ pamphlet What is the Third Estate “hit the revolutionary scene like a bombshell”

Histiography - Simon Schama

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Debt dissent and doleances

Patriots went far

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The patriots went far beyond the suggestions of the cahier de doleances

Histiography - Michal Adcock

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Debt dissent and doleances

Impact of inflation

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Workmen today need twice as much money for their substance, yet they earn no more than fifty years ago when living was half as cheap

Histiography - Picardy

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1789

X before Y

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We are citizens before Soldiers, Frenchman before slaves

Primary - an old comrade of the Gardes Francaises

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1789

old regime

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It seen that the old regime was to be swept away overnigh

Histiography - Simon Schama

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Leaders of the Revolution

Leaders?

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Leaders, we call them, but indeed they were led - or rather, swept off their feet, and carried along by a movement which they were powerless to control.

Histiography - Thompson p ix

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Revolution in the Provinces

Whatever the cost

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No matter how horrible these events maybe, we think that the ministers were preparing even more terrible actions. The behaviour of the courts & ministers is so horrible & oppressive that we must free ourselves from them, no matter the price

Primary - Greuze-Latouche 3rd estate deputy for the estates general, lawyer July 14t 1789

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Revolution in the Provinces

troops didn’t arrive

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When the promised brigand and foreign troops did not arrive, armed peasants turned and struck at their local nobility

Histiography - Peter Mc Phee

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On divisions within the Church

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It was in the Church, more than any other group in France, that the separation between rich and poor was most bitterly articulated.

Histiography - Simon Schama

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On the declaration of the National Assembly

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The decision marked the beginnings of the real revolution and it was largely as a result of the indecision of Louis XVI

Fenwick and Anderson

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Regarding the Flight to Varennes

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From this moment the King appeared as the most dangerous foe to the mass of the people; the Flight to Varennes had finally torn off the mask and revealed him in his true colour

Soboul

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On the September Massacres

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… a good case… might be made for seeing the September Massacres as an event which… exposed a central truth of the French Revolution: its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends. For however virtuous the principles of kingless France were supposed to be, their power to compel allegiance depended, from the very beginning, on the spectacle of death.

Histiography - Simon Schama

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On the Terror

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The central purpose of the Terror was to institute the emergency and draconian measures necessary at a time of military crisis.

Mcphee

18
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On the August Insurrection

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[the Revolution] was nor armed, democratic and republican.

Mcphee

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Terror was not caused by Jacobin leadership

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The institutions of the Terror had been created long before Robespierre joined the government on 26th July 1793.

Lewis

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Terror was caused by Jacobin leadership

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In 1793 terrorist discourse was in the mouths of nearly all the leaders of the Revolution. Conceived in order to exterminate aristocracy, the Terror ended as a means of subduing wrongdoers and combatting crime. From now on it coincided with and was inseparable from the Revolution, because there was no other way of someday moulding a republic of citizens.

Furet

21
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On the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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In the end, it proved impossible to reconcile a church based on divinely ordained hierarchy… with a revolution based on popular sovereignty.

Mcphee

22
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On the Flight to Varennes

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The events of that night would prove a turning point in the history of the Revolution and the of the French monarchy, with an enormous immediate impact on Paris, and on the National Assembly and indeed on the whole of France and Europe.

Tackett

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On the Storming of the Bastille

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[it was] the climax of the popular movement.

Doyle

24
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On the French economy up to 1789

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[there was] enough for the government to function for one afternoon.

Histiography - Simon Schama

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On the Bourgeoisie

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The ultimate cause of the revolution was the rise of the Bourgeois.

Lefebvre

26
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On the Enlightenment

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The Enlightenment undermined the ideological foundations of the established order.

Soboul

27
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On the October Days

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The Revolution of the Bourgeois deputies had only been secured by the active intervention of the people of Paris.

Mcphee

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On the August Insurrection

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It was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. Though the King and his family remained unscathed, his authority fell with his palace… few believed that he would ever sit on the throne again, unless with foreign aid.

Doyle

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On the Constitution of Year III

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[the Constitution was] a return to the provisions of 1791… in this sense the Constitutions marks the end of the Revolution.

Mcphee

30
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The Revolution as a whole

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Was, then, the revolution worth it in material terms? For most ordinary French subjects turned by it into citizens, it cannot have been.

Doyle

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