Individuals Flashcards
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Louis XVI
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- Relocated to Tuileries Palace
- Failed to ratify new laws (Including CCoC)
- Flight to Varennes
- Tuileries Palace Invasions
- Trial and Execution
2
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Danton
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- Member of the Cordeliers
- The Terror
- 1793: a member of the Committee of Public Safety
- Advocated for end of Terror
- April 1794: Guillotined by Robespierre
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Marat
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- Founded radical newspaper (L’Ami du Peuple)
- Prompted a populist militancy
- Supporter of and hero to sans-culottes
- Killed 13 July 1793
- Stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday
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Robespierre
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- The “Incorruptible”
- Supported a constitutional monarchy
- President of the Jacobin Club
- Believed in the value of vertu
- Vertu is: Devotion to family, Devotion to work, Devotion to the ideals of revolution, Commitment to eliminate enemies of vertu
- Law of Self-Denying Ordinance
- The Terror
- Supported Law of Suspects
- The Thermidorian Reaction (executed 27-28 July 1794
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Lafayette
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- Member of the Jacobin Club (Left in 1790)
- Founded Feuillants Cub
- Blamed for Champ de Mars Massacre
- Defects to Austria (19 Aug 1792) after failing to start a counter-rev