Key Individuals: Origins of the Revolution, 1774-1789 Flashcards
King Louis XVI
King & absolute monarch of France (1774–1792)
1754-1793
Marie Antoinette
Wife to King Louis XVI
1755-1793
Voltaire
Key Philosphe
1694-1778
De Brienne
Controller General of Finances (1776-1783)
1727-1794
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Controller General of Finances (1783-1787)
1734-1802
Diderot
Key Philosophe
1713-1784
Marquis de Lafayette
Served Continental Army against the British in the American Revolution
1757-1834
Jacques Necker
Director General of Finance (1776-1781)
1732-1804
Philippe Duc d’Orleans
Cousin of King Louis & Served as a general in the American Revolution. He was politically ambitious and represented enlightenment ideas like a constitutional monarchy.
1747-1793
Thomas Paine
Political activist, author, philosopher & founding father originally from England but played a pivotal role in the American & French Revolution.
1736-1809
Rousseau
Key Philosophe & was against the lack of freedom and liberties of people’s submission to government & monarchy
1712-1778
Montesquieu
Key Philosophe & was a constitutional monarchist
1689-1755
Abbé Emmanuel- Joseph Sieyès
An French clergyman and then a representative in the Estates general 1789 and believed the third estate should have political influence and say
1748-1836
Charles Talleyrand- Périgord
Initially a priest in the & was elected as a representative of the clergy to the Estates-General in 1789 & quickly aligned himself with revolutionary forces.
1754 - 1838
