The Bourgeois Revolution Flashcards
Governeur Morris on the Queen:
“The Queen received not a single acclamation”
Schama on the Estates-General
“The more brilliantly the first two orders swaggered, the more they alienated the Third Estate and provoked it into exploding the institution together”
Estates-General opened on:
5th May 1789
It was rare for an unskilled worker to earn more than … a day
20 Sous a day
By the spring of …, a Parisian worker could have been spending … of his/her wages on bread
1789, 88%
National Assembly Declaration :
“This assembly is composed of deputies sent by at least 96% of the population… no other deputies has the right to perform his duties apart from the present assembly”
Adcock on sieyes:
Sieyes “facilitated the momentous transfer of sovereignty from the King to the Nation”
Arthur Young on the revolution
“the thunder of applause the [aurators] recieve for every sentiment of more than common hardness against the presend government cannot be believed”
National Assembly created on…
17th June 1789
Clergy vote to join the National Assembly on the …
19th June 1789
Tennis Court Oath made on the
20th June 1789
… deputies swore the oath
600
The Royal Session was on the …
23rd June 1789
When ordered to leave the Royal Session, Mireabeau stands and says
“We are here by the will of the nation, and we will go only if we are driven out by bayonets”
Bailly said:
“The assembled nation cannot be given orders”
