NA reform success? (free/equal/prosperous country) c

Question 1

When were NA around?

Answer 1

Oct 1789-Sept 1791

Question 2

Areas of life they made reforms in

Answer 2

Legal
Administrative
Economic/financial
King
Constitution/voting
Church 
Society

Question 3

Legal reforms? Analysis?

Answer 3

Largely successful

• Uniformity to legal system in N and S (important as it made it easier to implement their reforms)
• Judges became elected by departmental electoral assemblies
• Removed lettres de cachets
• Removed 1/2E court privileges
• Equality in front of law

Question 4

Constitutional changes? Good

Answer 4

Louis becomes constitutional monach

Citizens= active v passive

Question 5

Administrative reforms?

Answer 5

Creation of 83 departments
Devolved power to elected council of 36 in each department….this pleased 3E- they can now vote for these 36 (what they wanted in their cahier de dolances)

Question 6

Financial reforms?

Answer 6

Corporate bodies abolished in 1791- end of the guilds
Internal tarrifs disappeared- trade deregulated by 89
Decimal system- rationalisation; Enlightenment

Question 7

King reforms not good?

Answer 7

Retained suspensory veto for 4 years then it would become law
Stil had power to form a cabinet

Question 8

King reforms good?

Answer 8

King of the French not France
Granted civil list of 25m for expenditure (reduced pre-rev spending by 20m)
No longer acted as legislature

Question 9

Social reforms good?

Answer 9

Venalities and privileges abolished
Everyone becomes a citizen
Reduced influence of church- marriage now a civil instiutiton; clergy rely on gov for salary
Pluralism made illegal
Payments of annates scrapped (money to the Pope)
2nd Nov 1789- bien nationaux
tithe abolished
CCoTC= 1790

Question 10

Voting reform bad?

Answer 10

VERY diluted system
3 paid working days =to elect electors
10 paid working days= to elect deputies
54 paid working days= to be a deputy

Only 1% were electors
50k/25m could be deputies

Question 11

Finance reform not good?

Answer 11

Gabelle not removed until March 1790
Assignat production began in Dec 1789- for sale of church land but became currency as NA began paying off debts with them. Excessive printing (and Br opened 7 printing houses in LDN to excerbate) lead to inflation
Eradication of internal tarriffs benefited large producers not townsfolk
IE Capitalist benefactors vs everyone else

Question 12

Society reform not good?

Answer 12

Le Chaplier law of 1791- no trade unions or strikes allowed

Workers had to carry around livret (record of employment)