La Partie en Danger

Question 1

Sans-Cullotes hold an armed demonstration at the Hotel de Ville on…

Answer 1

20 June 1792

Question 2

… demonstrators march on the Hotel de Ville

Answer 2

~8000

Question 3

The decree ‘La Patrie en Danger” passed on :

Answer 3

11 July 1792

Question 4

Brunswick Manifesto made on…

Answer 4

25 July 1792

Question 5

Brunswick Manifesto:

Answer 5

If the King was not placed “fully at liberty”, those involved would be held personally responsible and would be “punished by military law, without any hope of pardon”

Question 6

Revolutionary Commune established on:

Answer 6

9 August 1792

Question 7

The Storming of Tuileries:

Answer 7

10 August 1792

Question 8

… armed Sans-Cullotes invaded the Tuileries

Answer 8

20,000

Question 9

Storming of Tuileries resulted in…

Answer 9

560 Swiss guards killed, 300 attackers killed

Question 10

Royal servant:

Answer 10

“Some men were still continuing with the slaughter; while the women lost to all sense of shame, were committing the most indecent mutilations on the dead bodies”

Question 11

Lafayette defects to Austria:

Answer 11

19 August 1792

Question 12

Assembly decreed all refractory priests should leave France within seven days…

Answer 12

23 August 1792

Question 13

Legislative Assembly created …

Answer 13

25 August 1792

Question 14

Schama:

Answer 14

“It was the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constitutional authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by-product of revolution, it was the source of its energy”

Question 15

Doyle on Tuileres:

Answer 15

“It was the bloodiest day of the revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.Though the King remained unscathed, his authority fell with his palace”

Question 16

Hampson:

Answer 16

“For the parisian nobility, it was the 10 August 1792, rather than 14 July 1789, that marked the end of the ancient regime”

Question 17

The September Massacres were on:

Answer 17

2-6 September 1792

Question 18

Fortress city of Verdun fallen:

Answer 18

2 September 1792

Question 19

Danton on the warfront:

Answer 19

“We demand that whoever refuses to serve in person be punished with death”

Question 20

Marat on September:

Answer 20

“let the blood of traitors flow!”

Question 21

September massacres result in … deaths

Answer 21

1200-1400 prisoners died

Question 22

Schama on Danton:

Answer 22

Danton “turned a blind eye to the violence he clearly knew was about to take place in Paris”

Question 23

Schama on the September Massacres:

Answer 23

The September Massacres exposed “a central truth of the French revolution: its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends”