Post Estat Géneral Flashcards
12-13 July 1789
Breakdown of order in Paris as rumours spread and mobs started raiding sword-smiths and gun-shops to arm themselves in case of royal assault
Crowds flooded barriéres ( customs) destroying 40/54
Prisons factories and the monastery of Saint-Lazare ALL subjected to attacks
What were barrières
Customs posts
12-13 July 40/54 destroyed
How did national guard come into being
12-13th July anarchy so Parisian electors met st the town hall and set up commune to take control of city and national guard to restore order and if necessary protect the Parisians from any action by king but mostly protect property from attack
Paris needed weapons. So what did they do
14th July
Crowd of 8000 surrounded Les Invalides where 32,000 muskets and some artillery was found but this was useful without gun powder. Hmmm where shall we get gunpowder from? Hey ! What about the BASTILLE YO!
Basilea storming
14th July 1789
What did king do following the storming of Bastille
Had to be persuaded to go to Paris on 17th July along with members of the assembly to address Parisians from town hall. He wore revolutionary cockade and appeared with new mayor of p, bail ly and lafay and announced reinstatement of necker and his acceptance of NA, p comm and the Nash guard
How many prisoners inside Bastille
7
Grande peur dates
17th July - 3Rd of August 1789
Stuff happening in country side before and during grande peur
Refused to pay taxes
Burned down fences hedges barns
Attacked chateaux
Stole grain and attacked farming families
Was grande peor widespride ? Proof
YESSS
ONLY EXCEPTIONS WERE ALSACE, lorRAINE AND BRITTANY
plus it wasn’t always just peasants it was often the ALL sectors of the local community
Ok so why like is the grandpa ur like significant u know
Because this led to the assembly’s SBOLITION IF FEUDAL RIGHTS
WHEN WERE FEUDAL RIGHTS ABOLISHED AND BY WHOM
4th JULY 1789
National Assembly 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
What drove the National Assembly to abolish FEUDAL right
Partly cos they need people to pay their taxes but also to further enlightenment ideologies !!!!!!
Witness to proceeding on the night of 4th August 1789 named ??? Who sai d
Marquis de Ferrières said that the “ancient french constitution” was “crumbling noisily”
New constitution called
The ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen’
What enlightenment ideas did the declaration of the rights of man and citizen include
Montesquieu’ insistence on the seperation of powers and Rousseau’s social contract
What did Assembly do to curb the kings power
Offered him a suspensory veto rather than an absolute one
What did Louis do more of which made everyone even more edgy
He brought more troops to Paris and fears that the assembly would be closed down soared
What happened late September 1789
A banquet was held to celebrate the return of te King’s Flanders regiment in late September, and rumour had it that the soldiers made oaths of loyalty to the king and that the trod on the tricolor
October days
Women cldnt find bread for their families and on 5th October around 6000-7000 women set out from Paris to Versailles to confront them
Effect of market women
He had to accept August decrees and declaration of right
Moved to Paris
The family move from Paris
6th oct
Fam escorted to Tuileries Palace but treated like prisoners
August decrees eg
All FEUDAL dues relating to device were abolished tithe abolished
All citizens would pay the same taxes on everything
