Royalist 1795 events

Question 1

When was the Verona Declaration?

Answer 1

29 June 1795

Question 2

What did it say?

Answer 2

Promised to restore French monarchy and avenge regicide

Question 3

Who was Verona Declaration written by?

Answer 3

Louis XVI’s brother, Comte de Provence who had decalred himself Louis XVIII

Question 4

Reaction to Verona Declaration?

Answer 4

Seen as a threat to return to the ancien regieme…not welcomed

Question 5

What was the law of 2/3

Answer 5

2/3 of the councils must be chosen from exsting members of the convention

Question 6

Reaction to the law of 2/3?

Answer 6

Angered Parisians who wanted the convention to be replaced

Angered monarchists as Conention opposed monarchy and therefore prevented royalist dominance

Question 7

Why else were royalists annoyed about the new constitution?

Answer 7

They believed that the Sept 1795 plebicite for it had been rigged

Question 8

Evidence for royalists being annoyed re 1795 Const

Answer 8

Pro-royalsit demonstrations led by Muscadins and factory/property owners

Question 9

When was Vendemaire?

Answer 9

5th Oct 1795

Question 10

What happened at Vendemaire

Answer 10

a large royalist crowd of 25k gathered to sieze power from the convention
Covention’s 7.8k troops used cannon and killed over 300- not another parisian uprising for 35 years
Nap- ‘whiff of grapeshot’