Pre rev Flashcards
Increase in the number of freemasonic lodges
1744
-enlightenment
War of Austrian Succession
1748
When was Marie married to Louis
1770
When was Louis XVI coronation
11 June 1775
When / What Voltaire work
-1759 Candide
-corruption of church / upper classes and their willful ignorance of the sufferings of those below them.
(willing ignorance upper estates,church abuses
When/ What Montesquieu work
-1748 spirit of laws
seperationof powers
When/ What Rousseau work
-“The Social Contract,” and “Emile,” 1762.
- education = better citizens, power of gov comes from consent so government should pursue general will
When/ What Diderot’s work
published 1751 -1772 Encyclopedia in which 100 thinkers put together their knowledge , including several articles himself
When was the seven years war + consequence and cost
-1756 - 63
-France surrendered all colonies in North America
-cost 1.3 billion livres
French debt after 7 years war
-1764
-2.3 billion livres
When did France first start sending aid to America
-1776 in secret
How much did France spend on the American civil war
1.3 billion livres
When did France start sending aid to America
-1776
-secretly
When was Turgot dismissed / why
-12 May 1776
-resigned as his six edicts had offended influential nobles and Antoinette
What/ when were the six edicts —> met with
-1776
-Turgot: abolish privilege, tax all, replace corvee with tax on land owners
–> met with two remonstrances
What/ when Compte rendu au roi - copies sold?
-Jan 1781
-Necker: inaccurate budget statement that sold 100,000 copies
-claimed 10 million livre surplus when actual 3 billion defecit
When/ why was Necker popular w/ people but dismissed ?
-19 May 1781
- popular w/ people for winning a war without extra tax + attacking vested interests +publishing public finances
—>from March compte de rendu being a breach of royal protocol and offending wealthy interests forced him to resign
When was Calonne dismissed
-8 April 1787
When was assembly of notables called?
-22nd feb 1797
-failed to rubber stamp calonnes ideas for general land tax and reduced
-opposition led by brienne
-seen as incompetent after he revealed compte de rendu to be innacurate
When was assembly of notables dismissed
-25 May 1797
What/ when was the first lit de justice in the course
-6 August 1787
-Lettre de cachaets for all magistrates in paris and bordeaux parlements, sent to troyes, seeing as they said about Briennes proposed end to tax exemptions “contrary to right of the nation,”
When/ why was Parlement exiled to Troyes
-15 August 1787 for failing to register edicts (Brinnes land tax for all, reduce tax exemptions)
when did Parlement return to troyes
-28 September 1787
-returned due to demonstrations against this and growing financial issues
when did the king first agree to an estates general, to be held when
-19 to 20 th november 1787 for 1792 in return for another vingtieme (5% of annual income collected from all despite their rank)
