The Terror Flashcards
List reasons for terror
War Republic of virtue Destroy ancien regimen Economy Internal revolts
Dumouriez did what which added to terror
Dumouriez
Britain took T?? In 1793
Toulon
War ?? Violence
Normalised
Even after war improved in late 1793 what happened to terror
Terror still grew stronger
Parties didn’t agree on fate of the king
Jacobins wanted execution girondins thought this would increase civil unrest or even provoke civil war
Repercussions of war beginning of terror
Inflation
Internal peasant rioting = chouan rebellion
Robespierre called for death of king
Louis must die because the country must live
21st jan 1793
King is executed
Success in war also helped economy how
Conquests brought assets that. Oils be sold for cash
Vendée uprising required how many to quell
Convention had to send 30,000 which later had to grow to 100,009
But by December 1793 it was quelled
? And ? Enemies
Internal and external enemie
When was committee of general safety set up
October 1792
Rob not on it
Representatives on
Misión
Reported back no one cld be trusted
19th March 1793 law abt rebels with arms
New law decreed that revels bearing arms could be executed without appeal within 24 hours
April 1793 committee of pu
Committee of public safety set up
March 1793 surveillance
Committed of surveillance set up to report suspicious behaviour
Average food prices rose ?% from 1791 to 1793
90%
Robespierre didn’t Care ant sans-culottes and enragés who protested food wages until
Until he realised the political advantage to be gained from supporting the glamour against grain hoarders and profiteers to discredit Girondin rivals
Marat wrote
L’ami du peuple
Who blamed girondins for frances problems
Price controls on food difference between Robespierre and girondins
8000 scs 3rd May 1793 demanded it rob said yh to price controls on wheat and flour
BUT GIRONDINS OPPOSED
This solidified sans Culottes and Parisian mobs being with jacobins
June 2nd 1793 scs convention
Between 80,000-100,000 surrounded convention demanding girondins be expelled
Dumouriez was a ? General and Robespierre used this to help himself
Girondin general
Jacobin constitution in 1793 said what abt voting
All adult males had the right to vote
Committee of public safety in ordered levee on masse when
23rd August 1793
How did levée en masse involve everyone
Eligible soldiers fought
Married men made weapons
Women made tents
Children shredded linen for lint
In 1793 military defeat and failure became what
Political crimes
In 1793 how many generals executed
17
September 1793 Dunkirk
Dunkirk is lifted by french
But french are also defeated by Spain
By end of 1793 nov and dec war
Nov - France defeated by Prussians
Dec - vendéean rebels defeated
Austria and Prussia withdraw from Rhône
Alsace is taken
