The French Revolution Flashcards
What name was commonly used for the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, an off-shoot of the Breton Club?
Jacobins
Which former Director-General of Finance was recalled to his post in 1788 and agreed that the Estates-General should be summoned for the first time in over 170 years?
Jacques Necker
Where was the Tennis Court in which the Third Estate took an oath in 1789 to never disband until a written constitution had been established for France?
Versailles Palace
Which group got its name because its members sat on the highest benches in the assembly?
Montagnards (Men of the Mountains)
Whose last words to his executioner in 1794 were “Show my head to the people. It is worth the trouble”?
Georges Danton
What innovation was designed by the playwright and poet Fabre d’Eglantine and adopted by the convention in 1793, despite being privately opposed by Robespierre?
The Revolutionary Calendar
Which civic religion did Robespierre create to replace Christianity and the Cult of Reason
Cult of the Supreme Being
Which English radical was elected to represent Calais in 1793 as a Deputy to the National Assembly?
Thomas Paine
Which item of clothing, a symbol of freedom in Ancient Rome, was adopted by the revolutionaries as a symbol of their cause?
Phrygian Cap of Liberty - Bonnet Rouge
Which political group were also known as the Brissotins, after their founder Jacque-Pierre Brissot?
Girondins
What was the name of the Girondin sympathiser who murdered Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793 while he was taking a bath?
Charlotte Corday
In June 1791, the Royal Family escaped from Paris. In which town were they arrested and turned back to the capital?
Varennes
Which body was established in April 1793 to work alongside the Committee of General Security?
Committee of Public Safety
Which painter and revolutionary, who was later banised to Brussels by the Bourbons, created pictures of the Tennis Court Oath and the Death of Murat
Jacques-Louis David
Which agreement of 1790 effectively turned the clergy into employees of the state?
Civil Constitution of the Church
What was the name of the Roman Catholic priest who was the confessor to Louis XVI on the night before his execution, and was with him as he mounted the steps to the guillotine?
Abbé Edgeworth
Which title did the Prince known as Prince Egalité renounce after the fall of the monarchy in 1792?
Duke of Orleans
What name was given to the extreme radicals, led by Jacque Roux, who were concerned primarily with the critical food shortage of 1793, and attacked the Girondins in the Convention
Enragés
Who composed the song that became known as La Marseillaise?
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
To what position was Napoleon Bonaparte appointed under the Constitution of December 1799? It was later confirmed by a public referendum
First Consul
By what nickname was the journalist Francois-Noel Babeuf known, because his agrarian reforms resembled those of a second century BC Roman Statesman
Gracchus
What alternative name was gien to the Jour Complimentaires, the spare days in the Revolutionary calendar that resulted from the year being made up of twelve 30 day months?
Sans Coulttides or Jours Epagomenes
Which frequently vulgar newspaper was established by Jacque-René Hébert and became the best selling newspaper after the death of Marat?
Le Père Duchense
On the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, where in Paris did the Fête de la Federation take place?
Champs de Mars
Joseph Foucé crushed a revolt against the Convention in which major city in 1793? His brutality against un-armed civilans leading to a rift with Robespierre
Lyons
What was the name of Robespierre’s brother, who was guillotined along with him during the Thermidorean Reaction?
Augustin
What name was given to the smaller of the two Chambers of the Directory?
Council of Elders
Which date in 1792 was adopted as the beginning of Year One of the French Revolutionary Calendar and renamed primidi vendemiaire?
22 September
In 1792, at which battle did the French defeat an allied army led by the Duke of Brunswick?
Valmy
Which politician and lawyer was President of the National Convention and a member of the Committee of Public Safety. He was later guillotined alongside Danton
Marie-Jean Herault de Sechelles
