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How many regional parlements were there in France and what could they do?

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13 regional parlements
Ratify royal legislation

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What was the tithe?

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Tax paid to the church of 10% of income

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How much of the population did the Second Estate make up and how much land did they own

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Less than 1% of the population
Between 1/4 and 1/3 of the land

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What was meant by the King ruling ‘by the law’

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Upholding Christian morality
Respecting rights and privileges of his subjects

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Growth of Salons from 1700 to 1785

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1700 - 3 salons
1785 - 80 salons

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When was the Seven Years’ War and what was its estimated cost?

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1756-63
Around 1.8 billion livres

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When was Necker appointed as Director General of Finances and what successful reforms did he introduce

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1777
Reduced number of tax farmers from 60 to 40
Removed vingtieme on industry

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Revolt of the Nobles and political breakdown

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May-August 1788
Provincial parlements flooded royal court with remonstrances
Paris Parlement led cries to end lettres de cachet

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Estates-General

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5th May 1789
1200 representatives gathered at Versailles

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National Assembly

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17th June 1789
Third estate refused to meet separately
Voted 490-90 to call themselves ‘National Assembly’

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What did the National Assembly claim

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To represent the French nation
Have right tom decide taxation

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Tennis Court Oath

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20th June 1789
Members of National Assembly swore oath
‘To never disband until France had a new constitution’

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Why were tensions high in Paris on 11th July 1789

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Nearly 30,000 troops in and round Paris
Popular necker dismissed confirmed fears that King was preventing reform
Poor harvest = bread prices highest since 1715

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Storming of Bastille

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14th July 1789
8000 Sans-Culottes armed themselves with muskets
Descended on Bastille for gunpowder
De Launey murdered
93 killed

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The Great Fear

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17th July 1789
Rumours of disorder in Paris spread to Countryside
Peasants refused to pay taxes
Armed and destroyed masters records of obligations

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

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26th August 1789
Derived from Enlightenment principles
All citizens equal
Conceding these measures went strongly against King’s belief of Divine Right

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Religious changes (4 changes)

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1789
Pluralism abolished
Annates ended
Tithe and don gratuit abolished
Church property nationalised

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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12th July 1790
Reduced bishoprics from 135 to 85
Clergy paid by state
Bishops and priests to be elected

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Administrative reforms

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  • February 1790
  • France divided into 83 departements
  • Each departement had an elected council
20
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Champ de Mars massacre

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July 1791
6000 people
Lafayette and National Guards sent to ensure order
Guards fired directly on crowds
Killing 50

21
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Decleration of Pillnitz

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27th August 1791
Stated that:
* Situation of French King was ‘common interest’ to all nations
* Power of French crown should be restored
* They were ready to use force to restore power

22
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Evidence for noble emigre threat

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By 1791 60% of all pre-revolutionary army officers were among noble emigre armies

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Journee of 20 June 1792

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8000 sans-culottes and some National Guards
Marched to Tuileries palace
Demanding Louis withdraw vetoes and reinstate pro-war ministers

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Brunswick Manifesto

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Arrived in Paris 1 August 1792
Written by Duke of Brunswick
Warned any National Guardsman captured by the Austrians would be killed
Paris would suffer vengeance if King was harmed

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Journee of 10 August 1792

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20,000 armed sans-culottes and 2000 federes and National Guards
Marched to Tuileries palace
Many National Guards defected
Palace set on fire and 1000 sans-culottes and federes were killed or wounded
Nearly all Swiss Guard killed

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September Massacres

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2nd September 1792
Federe and sans-culottes
1500 prisoners murdered in Paris

27
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How many in the convention voted Louis guilty and for death without conditions

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693 voted guilty (none against)
361 for death without conditions

28
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How did Louis’ execution demonstrate Jaconbin influence in National Convention

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Girondins less inclined to support death penalty
Jacobins wanted Louis executed

29
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Dumouriez defects to Austrians

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April 1793
Commander of Army of the North

30
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War of the First Coalition

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March 1793
Against Austria, Prussia, Great Britain
French driven out of Austria Netherlands
Attacks mounted on France

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The rising in the Vendee

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March 1793
Protesting against levy for 300,000 men
Massacre of local officials
Convention sent 100,000 men to destroy the uprising

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Committee of General Security (CGS)

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Established October 1792
Responsible for policing and administering justice
Reduced from 30 deputies to 12 at beginning of 1793

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Revolutionary tribunal

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Established March 1793
To try counter-revolutionaries
5 judges
Jurymen from Paris

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Committee of Public Safety (CGS)

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April 1793
9 men
Responsible for conduct of war and application of revolutionary laws

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Fall of Girondins

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June 1793
100,000 sans-culottes and National Guards
Assembled around convention
29 Girondin members expelled

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Levee en masse

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August 1793
CPS
All men between 18-25 to give immediate military service
Women to ‘make tents and service in hospitals’

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Law of Suspects

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September 1793
Nobles, relatives of emigres and hoarders of goods all defined as suspects

38
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How did the Law of suspects lead to an increase in the numbers brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal

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Between March and September 1793 : 260 cases heard
Between September and December 1793 : 500,000 cases heard

39
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What % of executions during the inital phase of Terror were from the nobility and clergy

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9% from nobility
7% from clergy

40
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Rising of Germinal

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April 1795
10,000 sans-culottes invaded convention
Demanding ‘Bread and constitution of 1793’
Convention placed Paris under martial law

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Rising of Prairial

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May 1795
20,000 sans-culottes invaded Convention
Demanding better supply of food and constitution of 1793
40,000 soldiers called to dispel crowds

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