Part 4 Flashcards

1
Q

When did Sieyes become a director

A

May 1799

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2
Q

When was General Joubert killed

A

August 1799

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3
Q

When was the Coup de Brumaire

A

9th November 1799

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4
Q

Where did the councils move to in lead up the coup

A

saint-cloud

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5
Q

What sort politicians filled the vacancies in the CPS ad CGS

A

moderate danotnists and members of the Plain

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6
Q

When was the Law of 22 Prairial repealed

A

1st August 1794

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7
Q

When was the Revolutionary Tribunal reorgansied

A

10 August 1794

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8
Q

What was the effect of the reorganisation of the revolutionary tribunal

A

the number of guillotinings significantly decreased

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9
Q

What was used as an alternative to guillotining

A

exile to Guiana

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10
Q

When was the Law on Revolutionary Government introduced

A

24 August 1794

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11
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What did the Law on Revolutionary government provide

A

provided a complete reorganisation of government and administration away from highly centralised structure of the terror

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12
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How was the structure of the government changed following the law on revolutionary government

A
  • revolutionary committees were reduced to one per department (broke power structure of the sans culottes)
  • central gov was put in the hands of 16 committees (responsible for the convention)
  • new representants en mission were dispatched to the provinces to oversee changes
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13
Q

What percentage of members were changed each month in the convention

A

25%

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14
Q

When was the church and state separated following the terror

A

18th September 1794

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15
Q

What was the effect of the separation of the church and state in 1794

A

state stopped paying clerical salaries which ended the constitutional church

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16
Q

When was the Jacobin club closed down

A

12th November

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17
Q

When was the Law of maximum repealed

A

24th December 1794

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18
Q

In 1795 further measures reduced the terror further still- what were they

A
  • Toleration for all religions was proclaimed BUT still some restrictions on ‘Catholic’ practices
  • representants en mission were abolished
  • revolutionary tribunal was abolished
  • law of suspects was officially repealed
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19
Q

Who did the moderates who were in control by the end of 1794 represent

A

the propertied bourgeoisie

20
Q

Who were the three prominent thermidorians

A
  • Jean-Lambert Taillen
  • Joseph Fouche
  • Paul-Francois Barras
21
Q

What was the white terror

A

series of purges and campaigns by which the thermidorians took action against the former proponents of the Terror

22
Q

Who supported the thermidorians during the white terror

A

‘Muscadins’ and jeunesse doree

23
Q

Who did the muscadins and jeunesse doree attack in the streets

A

sans culottes and jacobins

24
Q

What is an example of violent event during the white terror

A

May 1795- Lyons

25
Q

What happened in Lyons 1795

A

Jacobin prisoners were hauled from cells and slaughtered

26
Q

When did the revolutionary tribunal close

A

May 1795

27
Q

Why did the revolutionary tribunal stay open until May

A

to permit legal action against jacobins

28
Q

What was the real value of the assignat by April 1795

A

1/10 of its original value

29
Q

What was the effect of the dropping value of the assignat in France

A
  • factories forced to close
  • farmers refused to sell gain to supply the capital for paper money
  • 10th May the bread ration for Parisians fell to 60g per day
30
Q

What was the effect of the lowering bread rations in Paris

A

Hundreds of Parisians starved, froze to death or committed suicide

31
Q

When was the rising of Germinal

A

1st April 1795

32
Q

What happened during the rising of Germinal

A

10,000 sans culottes invaded the convention demanding ‘bread and the constitution of 1793’

33
Q

Why was the rising of Germinal easily crushed

A

the demonstrators were not armed so when the National Guardsmen arrived they withdrew without resistance

34
Q

What is martial law?

A

ruling through the army and using military measures rather than normal civilian law

35
Q

When was the Rising of Prairial

A

20/21 May 1795

36
Q

Why Prairial rising more threatening than Germinal

A

as the men were armed

37
Q

Which deputy did the sans- culottes murder immediately and why

A

murdered Jean-Bertrand Feraud as we tried to stop them entering the meeting hall

38
Q

What did the sans-culottes demand during Prairial uprising

A

the release of Jacobin prisoners, the instatement of the 1793 constitution and new controls to ensure better supply of food

39
Q

What happened on the 2nd day of the prairial uprisng

A

20,000 sans culottes and National guards trained loaded canons on the convention

40
Q

How many soldiers were sent in to dispel crowds during the 2nd day of prairial rising

A

40,000

41
Q

When was the Rising of Vendemiaire

A

5th October 1795

42
Q

What was the nature of the Vendemiaire rising

A

royalists uprising inn the Vendee

43
Q

What sparked the Vendemiaire rising

A

royalists believed that a plebiscite held in September to win support for a new non-monarchical constitution had been rigged

44
Q

Who crushed the Vendemiaire uprising

A

Napoleon

45
Q

How many people were killed with Napoleon’s whiff of grapeshot

A

around 300