La Partie en Danger Flashcards
Sans-Cullotes hold an armed demonstration at the Hotel de Ville on…
20 June 1792
… demonstrators march on the Hotel de Ville
~8000
The decree ‘La Patrie en Danger” passed on :
11 July 1792
Brunswick Manifesto made on…
25 July 1792
Brunswick Manifesto:
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”
Revolutionary Commune established on:
9 August 1792
The Storming of Tuileries:
10 August 1792
… armed Sans-Cullotes invaded the Tuileries
20,000
Storming of Tuileries resulted in…
560 Swiss guards killed, 300 attackers killed
Royal servant:
“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”
Lafayette defects to Austria:
19 August 1792
Assembly decreed all refractory priests should leave France within seven days…
23 August 1792
Legislative Assembly created …
25 August 1792
Schama:
“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”
Doyle on Tuileres:
“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”
Hampson:
“For the parisian nobility, it was the 10 August 1792, rather than 14 July 1789, that marked the end of the ancient regime”
The September Massacres were on:
2-6 September 1792
Fortress city of Verdun fallen:
2 September 1792
Danton on the warfront:
“We demand that whoever refuses to serve in person be punished with death”
Marat on September:
“let the blood of traitors flow!”
September massacres result in … deaths
1200-1400 prisoners died
Schama on Danton:
Danton “turned a blind eye to the violence he clearly knew was about to take place in Paris”
Schama on the September Massacres:
The September Massacres exposed “a central truth of the French revolution: its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends”