Ideas

Question 1

The Enlightenment

Answer 1

• Intellectual movement with french thinkers known as philosophes, challenging the traditional ways of thinking.
• 1748: The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
• 1762: The Social Contract by Rousseau
• 1751-66: Encyclopedie by Diderot
• Voltaire attacked the church
• Popular in the salons and the bourgeois (Society of Thirty)

Question 2

Attack on ‘Ministerial Despotism’

Answer 2

• Challenged the status quo, influenced events like the August decree
• Revolt of the Notables 1787-88

Question 3

Critique of privilege

Answer 3

• Helped challenge the status quo, created social tension, push for reform
• What is the Third Estate?
• Reveillon Riots
• August Decrees
• DORMAC

Question 4

Claims to Popular Sovereignty

Answer 4

• Led to ideas of merit, fraternity and equality amongst people
• American War of Independence
• The National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• Storming of the Bastille
• October Days

Question 5

Claims to Equality

Answer 5

• What is the Third Estate?
• Cahiers de Doleance
• August Decrees
• DORMAC

Question 6

Attack on Feudalism

Answer 6

• The Great Fear

- The August Decrees