Thermidorian Reaction

Question 1

Law of 22 Prairial repealed

Answer 1

1 August 1794

Question 2

Revolutionary Tribunal reorganised

Answer 2

10 August 1794

Question 3

Law on Revolutionary Government

Answer 3

24 August 1794

Question 4

Jacobin club closed

Answer 4

12 November 1794

Question 5

Law of the Maximum repealed

Answer 5

24 December 1794

Question 6

Representants abolished

Answer 6

April 1795

Question 7

Revolutionary Tribunal abolished

Answer 7

May 1795; Thermidorian Reaction saw 63 guillotinings.

Question 8

Law of Suspects repealed

Answer 8

October 1795

Question 9

White Terror

Answer 9

Carrier executed 16 December 1794. Supported by muscadins and jeunesse doree. Royalist groups became vigilantes, e.g. companies of Jesus and companies of the Sun. May 1795 - Lyons Jacobin prison massacre.

Question 10

Threat - Returning emigres, royalists and clergy

Answer 10

Louis XVIII published Verona Declaration - June 1795. Comte d’Artois helped Chouan rebels. Treaty of La Jaunaye February 1795. July 1795 - Hoche defeated Quiberon Bay rising; 700 emigres executed.

Question 11

War

Answer 11

Batavian Republic proclaimed January 1795. Peace of Basel April 1795. Spanish sued for peace in July 1795.

Question 12

Rising of Germinal

Answer 12

1 April 1795 - 10,000 sans-culottes. Pichegru takes command of Paris under martial law.

Question 13

Rising of Prairial

Answer 13

20/21 May 1795 - 20,000 sans-culottes and National Guard. 42 National Guard and 6 deputies executed.

Question 14

Rising of Vendemiaire

Answer 14

5 October 1795 - Royalist anger after September constitution plebiscite. Rumours of Comte d’Artois landing. 25,000 armed Parisians V. Napoleon’s 5/6,000 troops + 40 cannon. 300 royalists killed with a ‘whiff of grapeshot’.