thermidorian

Question 1

• vacancies on the CPS and CGS filled by moderated from dantonists and members of the plain

Answer 1

31 July 1794

Question 2

law of 22 prairial repealed

Answer 2

1 august 1794

Question 3

• revolutionary tribunal reorganised

Answer 3

10 august 1794

Question 4

Law on revolutionary government provided for complete reorganisation

Answer 4

24 august 1794

Question 5

• church and state separated

Answer 5

18 september 1794

Question 6

• Jacobin club closed

Answer 6

12 november 1794

Question 7

law of maximum repealed

Answer 7

24 december 1794

Question 8

• February 1795

Answer 8

toleration for all religions proclaimed

Question 9

april 1795

Answer 9

representants en mission abolished

Question 10

may 1795

Answer 10

revolutionary tribunal abolished

Question 11

october 1795

Answer 11

law of suspects repealed

Question 12

White terror

Answer 12

• Thermidorians took action against the former proponents of the terror
• Supported by muscadins and jeuness d’oree – attacked sans culottes and Jacobins in the streets, encouraged by freron

Question 13

De-martyrisation of Marat and defence of convention

Answer 13

May 1795

Question 14

Victims of terror murdered jacobins

Answer 14

chouans in nw France, peasants in vendee and federalists of cities

Question 15

Extreme behaviour in Lyons in May 1795

Answer 15

o Jacobin prisoners were hauled from cells and slaughtered

Question 16

Louis XVI’s brother the comte de Provence ‘Verona declaration’

Answer 16

• June 1975 when he promised to restore French glory and take revenge on all regicides

Question 17

• republicans concluded treaty of la jaunaye with royalist rebels in west

Answer 17

feb 1795

Question 18

peace with chouans

Answer 18

april 1795 la prevalaye

Question 19

• general hoche defeated a rising at Quiberon bay in southern Brittany –

Answer 19

july 1795

execution of nearly 700 emigres

Question 20

Oath of loyalty

Answer 20

feb 1795

Question 21

French success against united provinces- proclamation of Batavian republic

Answer 21

Jan 1795

Question 22

Prussians opted to leave the coalition signing peace of Basel

Answer 22

• April and ceding west to bank of rhine to France

Question 23

spanish peace

Answer 23

july

Question 24

rising of germinal

Answer 24

• 1 April 1795
o 10,000 sans culottes invaded the convention demanding bread and the constitution of 1793
o national guardsmen arrived and they withdrew
o convention placed Paris under martial law – gave command of city to general Pichegru- ruling through army and arrested agitators

Question 25

rising of prairial

Answer 25

• 20/21 May 1795
o larger group of sans-culotte women and armed men invaded the convention
o paraded head of deputy jean Bertrand feraud
o demanded release of Jacobin prisoners, the instatement of the constitution of 1793 and new controls for a better supply of food
o convention agreed to establish food commission – called in troops to disperse rebels

Question 26

o 2 Prairial:

Answer 26

o 20000 sans culottes and national guards trained loaded canon on the convention
o 40000 regular soldiers called in to dispel crowds – largest display of military force since the revolution began
o no shots fired – sans culottes withdrew
o convention prevented trouble – marched troops into the Fauberg saint-Antoine, the insurgents home territory and forcing the surrender of weapons
o 6000 cross examined and 42 national guards executed

Question 27

rising of Vendemiaire

Answer 27

5 October:
• royalist believed a plebiscite held in September for a non-monarchic constitution was rigged
• comte d’artois had landed at ile de’yeu – coast of the vendee
• pro-royalist demonstrations led by muscadins, factory and property owners who despaired of a republican government
• convention called on unemployed Jacobin army officers- 3 battalions
• faced with 25000 armed Parisians marching on the convention Paul barres was approached by Napoleon Bonaparte given permission to take command of the republic’s 5000-6000 troops

Question 28

13 vendemiaire

Answer 28

• armed royalist groups surrounded the convention, outnumbering the republicans by six to one
• Bonaparte found 40 canon which he fired into their ranks
• royalists repulsed – 300 killed