January Mock Flashcards
Start supplying aid to US
1776
Aid sent in 1777
5 million livres
Debt in 1783
3.3 million livres with 45% of expenditure on debt
Poor harvests
1785
Assembly of Notables
Feb - May 1787
When were the parliaments lectured by the King?
Dec 1785
Expenditure on debt in 1788
50%
Calonne’s reform package
1786
Turgot’s Six Edicts
1776 - abolish privilege, Corvee royale and guilds forced through with lit de justice but later abandoned
Comte Rendu
1781
Nobility land ownership
25-33%
Percentage of population RCC
97%
Literacy rate in urban France
60%
Montesquieu
Separation of power + constitutional monarchy
Voltaire
Freedom of speech, lettres de cachet, anti-clericalism
Rousseau
Government derived from the people, anticlericalism
Diderot
Against organised religion
Turgot
1774-1776
Necker
1777-1781
Calonne
1783-1787
Brienne
Appointed after Assembly of Notables, failed land tax - lit de justice failed and petitions for EG start in July 1787.
Revolt of the Nobles
May-Aug 1788, Prov. Parlements flooded with remonstrances.
Don gratuit partially granted
June 1788
Day of Tiles
June 1788
Declaration of bankruptcy
August 1788
Announcement by Paris Parlement that Estates General would follow 1614, causing divisions.
Sep 1788
Double representation granted
Dec. 1788
What is the Third Estate?
Jan 1789
Rebellion Riots
April 1789
Spending on bread in Earl 1789
88%
Ceremony of Estates General
4th May 1789
First session of Estates General
5th May 1789
National Assembly formed
17th June
Clergy invited to join National Assembly
9th June
Dauphin dies
4th June
Worries about King dissolving National Assembly led to Tennis Court Oath
20th June 1789
Troops in capital
4800 on 27th June then 30,000 on 4th july including mercenaries
King recognised National Assembly and gave them double representation
27th June 1789
Dismissal of Necker
11th July
Bread prices on 14th July
Highest since 1715
Raiding of sword-smiths and gun shops in case of royal assault. 40/54 customs barriers destroyed. NG and Commune set up.
12th-13th July
What happened from 12th-13th July?
Raiding of sword shops in case of royal assault. 40/54 customs barriers destroyed.
Fall of the Bastille
14th July - 8000 descended on Les Invalides and went to Bastille for gunpowder. Governor decapitated.
King’s appearance at Hotel de Ville
17th July - reinstatement of Necker , acceptance of NA.
The Great Fear
17th July - 3rd August. Expectation of ending to burdens. Refusal to pay taxes and chateaux attacked. Feudal rights paper destroyed. Fear of marauding brigands stealing gran and nobles returning with foreign armies.
Abolition of feudal rights
4th August - ensure they pay their taxes and further Enlightenment ideas
August Decrees
Feudal dues, rights over dovecotes, hunting, seigneurial courts, tithes and venality abolished.All citizens eligible for positions. Equal taxation.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
26th August. Refused by King as it went against Divine Right.
King offered suspensory veto and summoned troops to capital + held banquet
August 1789
Women set out from Paris to Versailles with NG. King forced to accept AD and DOROMAC. Royals moved to Paris
5th October 1789
Royal family escorted to Tuileries
6th October 1789
Why were church reforms a priority?
Link to AR, Enlightenment, nun+ monks seen as wasters, wealth.
Church reforms
August 1789 - June 1790. Pluralism, annates, tithe and don gratuit abolished.
Church property nationalised
2nd November
Full citizenship for Protestants and all religious orders dissolved
December 1789
Selling of monastic land
Feb 1790
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
12th July 1790, administration in line with departements, paid state officials and bishops elected.
King forced to accept CCC
December 1790
Oath to CCC
27th November 1790. 7/160 bishops and 55% of clergy.
Papal bull + non-jurying priests were counter revolutionary.
April 1791
Declaration of Pillnitz
27th August
Army officers abroad 1791
60%
Legislative Assembly formed
October 1791
Banishment of emigres and refractory priests treated as traitors
November 1791
Austria and Prussia formal alliance
February 1792
France declared war on Austria
20th April 1792
Massacre of own officer
April 1792
Deportation of refractory priests begins and the disbanding of the king’s guard
May 1792
King uses suspensory veto against three measures and dismisses his ministry
June 1792
Fall of Longwy
25th August
Fall of Verdun
September 1792
Brunswick Manifesto
25th August 1792
First Vendee Uprising
August 1792
House-searches by Danton
30th August 1792
Conscription declared
2nd September 1792
September Massacres
1000-1500 killed in gaols. Priests killed by federes. Encouraged by Commune and Marat. ‘Traitors should be put to the sword’
Aftermath of September Massacres
Fears of popular revolution, Girondins blamed Jacobins, powers of Assembly shown to be weak.
1st Revolutionary Journee
20th June 1792, 8000 demanded Louis withdraw veto on pro-war ministers. Louis promised nothing but the crowd was satisfied.
Army of the North in retreat
July 1792
La Patrie en Danger
July 1792
Robespierre’s Republic speech
29th july 1792
Brunswick Manifesto
August 1792
2nd Revolutionary Journee1
10th August 1792, 20,000 armed - exchange of fire and King’s guards massacred. King removed to Temple prison and declared temporarily suspended. UMS promised.
Tribunal for traitors set up
17th August 1792
Priests given two weeks to leave and compensation cancelled
26th August 1792
Lafayette defects and replaced by Dumouriez
August 1792
Elections for a new Convention with UMS
2nd September 1972
Declaration of Republic
22nd September 1792
French occupation of Austrian Netherlands
November 1792
Edict of Fraternity
November 1792
Discussions over King’s fate and committee set up
Nov - Dec 1792
Armoire de fer
20th nOVEMBER 1792
Execution of king
21st January 1793 - 693 voted guilty, 361 for death, 286 for detention and banishment. Appel nominal.
Attacks on Girondin printing presses
9th-10th March 1793
Indictment for Marat’s arrest
12th April 1793
Sans-culottes march on Convention for price controls
3rd May 1793 - 8000 led to General Maximum
Call for rising against corrupt deputies
26th mAY 1792
Thousands besiege Convention
31st May to 2nd June
90,000 surround Convention,
2nd June, 29 Girondins expelled
Federalist Revolt
Jacobins forced of Lyons in May 1793, Protests in 60/83. Toulon proclaimed Louis XVII King, army sent under Napoleon.
New Constitution
24th June 1793 - executive council, plebiscite hugely in favour, UMS, political action and public assistance.
Levee en masse - conscription
23rd August 1793
Men in arms
1 million by 1794
Success at Wattignes
October 1793
Natural Frontiers
End of 1793
Robespierre, Spain-Just, Carnot and Couthon
September 1793
Sands-culottes demand that all suspects be arrested
July 1793 after Marat’s death
March on Convention demanding lower bread prices and higher wages
5th September 1793
Revolutionary Army created
September 1793
Law of Suspects
17th September 1793
New General Maximum
29th September 1793
Savoy, Nice and Monaco taken
Sep 1792 - Jan 1793
Natural frontiers
1793
War on Britain declared
1st February 1793
War on Spain and Portugal and War of First Coalition
March 1793
Dumouriez defects
April 1793
British blockade of ports
July 1793
Vendee Uprising
March - December 1793. Whose than under Ancien Regime, protest against leve. 14th March = Catholic and Royal Army of Vendee. Convention sent 30,000 from front.
Destruction of Vendee decreed
1st August - army of 100,000 sent
Creation of CGS
October 1792
Levy for 300,000 men
February 1793
March 1793
Reps en mission, Revolutionary Tribunal, surveillance committees
Summary Execution Decree
19th March 1793
CPS created
April 1793
Law of 14 Frimaire II
4th December 1793 - gave CPS direct power
Revolutionary Army + popular societies shut down
March 1794
Laws of Ventose
Jan + March 1794 promising sharing out of property (never carried out)
Report to Convention denouncing Hebertists and Indulgents
March 1794
Expulsion of Hebertists and Indulgents
End of March 1794
New series of deist festival
March 1794
Recognition of a Supreme Being
7th May 1794
Festival of Supreme Being
8th June 1794
Law of 22 Prairial
10th June (no defence, acquittal or death)
Great Terror
June to July 1794, 1284 sentences and 278 aquitted. 35% nobles, 25% clergy and 40% bourgeosie
Maximum wage set
23rd July 1794
Popular Terror stats
92-94 = 40,000 executed, March - Sep = 260 cases + Sep -Dec = 500,000
Show trials
Began in October 1793 , Marie Antoinette = 16th, 21 Girondins in 36 minutes on 31st, 6th = d’Orleans
Revolutionary until peace: watch committees, revolutionary army, CGS spies
10th October
Vendee killings
7873 guillotined and 2000 by mass drownings
Toulon and Lyons death
750 shot in Toulon and 2000 killed by grape shot in Lyons
Dechristianisation became policy
October 1793
Archbishop resigned
7th November 1793
Robespierre’s final speech accusing members of Convention
26th July 1794
Saint - Just not allowed to speak and decree or Robespierre’s arrest followed by rest of CPs
27th July 1794
Robespierre and 22 associates found guilty + guillotined.
28th July - 87/95 Commune members died
Value of assignats 1/2
Feb 1793
Value of assignat 1/3
August 1793
Parlement banished to Troyes
Aug 1787
Separation of powers happens
July 1789
One chamber decided
September 1789
Suspensory veto given
September 1789
King of the French
October 1789
King’s private income reduced
By 20 million livres
Active and passive citizens
December 1789
Louis accepts constitution
September 1791
Abolition of old provinces
November 1789
6 legal reforms of NA
Judge within 24, open to public, lawyer, torture + branding + hanging abolished, fair sentences, property could not be seized
Assignats start being issued
December 1789
Gabelle abolished
March 1790
One off patriotic contribution of 25% of income
September 1789