Popular and Peasant Revolutions Flashcards
Parisians hear about Necker’s dismissal on the …
12th July 1789
On the … Louis had approx … troops around Paris and Versailles
11th July 1789, 25,000
Goveneur Morris on Necker’s dismissal:
“The sword has fallen imperceptibly from his hand, and the Sovereignty of this nation is the National Assembly”
On the morning of …. the people seized…
14th July 1789, they seized 28,000 muskets and 20 cannons
After mob entered courtyard, shots were fired, resulting in…
98 civilians died, 78 were wounded and 6 soldiers were killed
… people took part in the storming of Bastille
600
Storming of Bastille was on the
14th July 1789
Louis after the storming said :
“It is a revolt” , “no sire, its a revolution”
Bad harvest in … saw bread prices rise in the spring and summer of …
1788, 1789
Landholders held large stores of bulk grain on their property in … , now regarded as hoarders
Spring and Summer 1789
President of Grenoble :
“There is daily talk of attacking the nobility”
The Great Fear was during … and was about
20 July - 6th August 1789
Based on the belief that the nobility were plotting to destroy the revolution
Lefebvre on the Great Fear:
“The aristocrat-brigand was a phantom figure… it provided an excellent excuse to arm the people against royal power”
Night of Patriotic Delirium was when…
The nobility and clergy throughout the night revoked their privileges that had been sacred for hundreds of years
Ferrières :
“a moment of patriotic drunkness”
