QUOTES PART 1 Flashcards
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ANALYSING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION QUOTES
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- Norman Hampson: “The writers of the Enlightenment… clearly not responsible for the revolutionary situation…but they did dictate the terms in which educated people thought about society”
- Nigel Aston: “The product of medium-term political and financial crises with the state and the destabilizing efforts to resolve them”
- Peter Vansittart: “The defection of the Army was not one the excuses of the Revolution, it was the Revolution itself”
- D.M.G Sutherland: “Parisians had begun to learn the lessons of insurrectionary politics”
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LIBERATING FRANCE QUOTES
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- “it seemed as though his reign would be secure”
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SIMON SCHAMA QUOTES
Revisionist
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WILLIAM DOYLE QUOTES
Revisionist
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- “Nobility was a club which every man felt entitled, indeed obliged, to join. Not all nobles were rich, but sooner or later, all the rich ended up noble”
- Calonne: “By abolishing internal tax barriers and removing controls over the grain trade”
- “Calonne had made many enemies”
- Necker: “His opulence as a banker”
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PETER MCPHEE QUOTES
Post-revisionist
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- “The conflict had cost France over one billion livres”
- “A society of corporations”
- “People were members of social orders born of a medieval conception of a world where people had duties to pray, to fight, to work”
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ALBERT SOBOUL QUOTES
French Marxist
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GEORGES RUDE QUOTES
French Marxist
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- “The cause of the conflict had its roots deep in the old regime”
- “The price of a two-kilogram loaf of bread rose to twelve sous on 8 November 1788”
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GEORGES LEFTEBOURE QUOTES
French Marxist
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