The Terror Begins

Question 1

France declares war on Britain and Holland on:

Answer 1

February 1793

Question 2

France declares war on Spain on:

Answer 2

March 1793

Question 3

Danton on the Grand Coalition:

Answer 3

“The King’s in alliance try to intimidate us. We hurl at their feet… the French King’s head.”

Question 4

General Dumouriez defects to Austria:

Answer 4

5 April 1793

Question 5

Levee en Masse:

Answer 5

24 February 1793

Question 6

Levee en Masse orders the conscription of … men into the Revolutionary army

Answer 6

300,000

Question 7

National Convention removes … soldiers from the war front to squash the Vendee Rebellion.

Answer 7

30,000

Question 8

Overnight posters in Mauges:

Answer 8

“Woe to those who announce conscription”

Question 9

Conscription decree announced in Mauges on:

Answer 9

2 March 1793

Question 10

Furet on the Vendee Rebellion:

Answer 10

“The most symbolic conflict, because it pitched revolution and ancien regime against one another in open country”

Question 11

McPhee on Vendee:

Answer 11

“The Vendee was not initially counter-revolutionary so much as anti-revolutionary. The Revolution, so welcome at the outset, had brought nothing but trouble”

Question 12

Committee of General Security created:

Answer 12

October 1792

Question 13

Law of Prairial passed on …, and meant that …

Answer 13

10 June 1794, Only penalty if found guilty is death

Question 14

Representatives-on-Mission created:

Answer 14

March 1793

Question 15

Bosher on Representatives-on-Mission:

Answer 15

“None played a greater role in terrorising the nation than the representatives-on-mission”

Question 16

Committee of Public Safety created:

Answer 16

April 6 1793

Question 17

Robespierre on CPS:

Answer 17

“Revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. Revolutionary governments owe good citizens the protection of the state, to its enemies, it owes only death”

Question 18

McPhee on CPS:

Answer 18

“The prime objective of the CPS.. was to implement laws and controls necessary to strike ‘Terror’ into the hearts of counter-revolutionaries”

Question 19

National Convention declares:

Answer 19

“Let terror be the order of the day”, 5 September 1793

Question 20

Petitions give to the Convention on … to set a maximum on prices

Answer 20

22 and 24 February 1793

Question 21

Assigned had dropped to … by …

Answer 21

50% face value, February 1793

Question 22

Vernigaud calls the Sans-culottes:

Answer 22

“Idlers, men without work… ignoramuses”

Question 23

Marat acquitted of all charges on:

Answer 23

24 April 1793

Question 24

Schama on Girondins:

Answer 24

The failed attempt to indict Marat can be seen as “a collective disaster for the Girondins”

Question 25

Girondins expelled from the National Convention:

Answer 25

2 June 1793

Question 26

Marat rings bell, and around … and … sans-culottes surround the Convention

Answer 26

75,000 and 100,000

Question 27

The Convention orders the arrest of … Girondin deputies

Answer 27

29

Question 28

Fenwick and Anderson:

Answer 28

“The Revolution had begun to devour its own children”

Question 29

Marat death:

Answer 29

13 July 1793