The Reign of Terror (17th Century) pt. 2 Flashcards
Republic of Virtue
Sacrifices ones own interests for the good of government
June-July 1794
The Reign Terror
Why Terror is used
To scare citizens into listening
Victims
- Marie Antoinette
- Girondists
- Women who demanded equality (Olympia de Gouge)
- Complainers of bread prices
- People who used Mademoiselle and Monsieur
- Not being excited enough about the war
- Neighbors turning in neighbors
Robespierre didn’t…
embrace Christianity
Since Robespierre didn’t embrace Christianity, it leads to…
De-Christianization of Paris
The De-Christinization changed…
The whole calendar. There were now ten days in a week, leaving three weeks in a month.
Year 1 is now…
1792
Christians God is now
God of Reason
Destroyed…
churches and renamed streets such as Saint Paul
The Cathedral of Notre Dame is now…
Temple of Reason
George Danton
A member of CPS is growing tired of the Reign of Terror
He is executed by…
his old friend Robespierre
Law of 22 Prairial
No evidence is needed to be admitted. Robespierre and Robespierrests would execute anyone at will
July 26, 1794
Robes. comes in with a list, “I’ve got a list of traitors, and tomorrow I shall read them off.”
Fall of Robespierre
The people shouted him down when he came in the next day. He is then arrested and taken to city hall where he isn’t checked for weapons. Robespierre shoots his own jaw off, but it doesn’t kill him until the next day when he is guillotined.
Thermidorian Reaction
The aftermath of the Reign of Terror
Tempering of the Revolution
Violence is less, but it is still there
Citizens are
tired of the Reign of Terror
Remaining Girondists
are returned to power in the Convention
Diminished
CPS’S Powers
Outlawed
Paris Commune
San-Culottes…
lost political power
Convention lifts…
bread prices, causing a riot
October 5, 1795
San-Culottes and royalists (king’s followers) raise a revolt against the Convention, but it’s crushed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
White Terror
Cleansings of the country by executing and murdering Jacobins (the radical ones.)
Treaties of Basel
Concluded peace with Prussia and Spain
The Directory
New government created by the new constitution in the year 3
Bicameral
Two houses instead of one
Executive Branch…
Has five presidents to carry out the laws, but they end up being corrupted and putting money in their own pockets.
