The Terror Begins Flashcards
France declares war on Britain and Holland on:
February 1793
France declares war on Spain on:
March 1793
Danton on the Grand Coalition:
“The King’s in alliance try to intimidate us. We hurl at their feet… the French King’s head.”
General Dumouriez defects to Austria:
5 April 1793
Levee en Masse:
24 February 1793
Levee en Masse orders the conscription of … men into the Revolutionary army
300,000
National Convention removes … soldiers from the war front to squash the Vendee Rebellion.
30,000
Overnight posters in Mauges:
“Woe to those who announce conscription”
Conscription decree announced in Mauges on:
2 March 1793
Furet on the Vendee Rebellion:
“The most symbolic conflict, because it pitched revolution and ancien regime against one another in open country”
McPhee on Vendee:
“The Vendee was not initially counter-revolutionary so much as anti-revolutionary. The Revolution, so welcome at the outset, had brought nothing but trouble”
Committee of General Security created:
October 1792
Law of Prairial passed on …, and meant that …
10 June 1794, Only penalty if found guilty is death
Representatives-on-Mission created:
March 1793
Bosher on Representatives-on-Mission:
“None played a greater role in terrorising the nation than the representatives-on-mission”
Committee of Public Safety created:
April 6 1793
Robespierre on CPS:
“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”
McPhee on CPS:
“The prime objective of the CPS.. was to implement laws and controls necessary to strike ‘Terror’ into the hearts of counter-revolutionaries”
National Convention declares:
“Let terror be the order of the day”, 5 September 1793
Petitions give to the Convention on … to set a maximum on prices
22 and 24 February 1793
Assigned had dropped to … by …
50% face value, February 1793
Vernigaud calls the Sans-culottes:
“Idlers, men without work… ignoramuses”
Marat acquitted of all charges on:
24 April 1793
Schama on Girondins:
The failed attempt to indict Marat can be seen as “a collective disaster for the Girondins”
Girondins expelled from the National Convention:
2 June 1793
Marat rings bell, and around … and … sans-culottes surround the Convention
75,000 and 100,000
The Convention orders the arrest of … Girondin deputies
29
Fenwick and Anderson:
“The Revolution had begun to devour its own children”
Marat death:
13 July 1793
