Timeline, Terms And Figures

Question 1

What date was the estates general last called?

Answer 1

1614

Question 2

When did France declare bankruptcy?

Answer 2

16th August 1788

Question 3

When was the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 3

1783

Question 4

Who were liberal nobles?

Answer 4

Marquis de Lafayette, the Duke of Noailles

Question 5

Abbé Emmanuel Sieyès

Answer 5

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Question 6

What was the popular movement?

Answer 6

Crowds of ordinary Parisians who became politically active as a consequence of the economic crisis. They demanded a political role as a means of improving their living standards.

Question 7

Citizens’ militia

Answer 7

A bourgeois defence force set up to protect the interests of property owners in Paris. After the storming of the Bastille it became the National Guard.

Question 8

Menu people

Answer 8

Used to describe ordinary people living in towns.

Question 9

When did the EG meet at Versailles?

Answer 9

May 5 1789

Question 10

When was the start of the great fear?

Answer 10

July 20th 1789

Question 11

When were the August decrees passed?

Answer 11

4th August 1789

Question 12

Dec of Rights of Man and the Citizen

Answer 12

August 26th 1789

Question 13

October Days

Answer 13

Oct 5-6 1789

Question 14

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Answer 14

July 12th 1790

Question 15

Flight to Varennes

Answer 15

June 20th 1791

Question 16

Champ de Mars massacre

Answer 16

July 17th 1791

Question 17

Final abolition of feudalism

Answer 17

17th July 1793

Question 18

Declaration of Pillnitz

Answer 18

August 27 1791

Question 19

War declared on Austria

Answer 19

April 20th 1792

Question 20

Overthrow of the monarchy/ August journee

Answer 20

August 10th 1792

Question 21

September Massacres

Answer 21

September 2-6 1792

Question 22

Proclamation of the Republic

Answer 22

September 22 1792

Question 23

Decree of Fraternity

Answer 23

November 19 1792

Question 24

June journee

Answer 24

June 20th 1792

Question 25

Brunswick manifesto

Answer 25

August 1st 1792

Question 26

Victory at Valmy

Answer 26

September 20th 1792

Question 27

Louis’ execution

Answer 27

January 21st 1793

Question 28

War declared on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic

Answer 28

February 1st 1793

Question 29

Revolt in the Vendee

Answer 29

March 11th 1793

Question 30

Battle of Wattignies

Answer 30

October 16th 1793

Question 31

Austrian Committee

Answer 31

A group of influential politicians and close confidants who gathered around Marie Antoinette, the daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. They kept in close secret contact with Vienna, the capital of the Austrian/ Habsburg Empire.

Question 32

Revolutionary War

Answer 32

Fought by France against other European powers between 1792 and 1802.

Question 33

Fédérés

Answer 33

Mainly national guardsmen sent from the provinces to display national unity during the Fête de la Fédération that commemorated the fall of the Bastille.

Question 34

Paris Sections

Answer 34

Paris was divided into 48 sections to replace the 60 electoral districts of 1789 – the section became the power base of the sans-culottes.

Question 35

La patrie en danger

Answer 35

- issued 11th July 1792 | ‘The fatherland is in danger’ became a rallying cry to ordinary people to help save the country.

Question 36

Montagnards

Answer 36

The Mountain – the name given to Jacobin deputies who occupied the upper seats in the tiered chamber of the National Assembly.

Question 37

Appel nominal

Answer 37

Each deputy was required to declare publicly his decision on the guilt or innocence of Louis XVI.

Question 38

The first coalition

Answer 38

A loose anti-French alliance created by Britain and consisting of Holland, Spain, Piedmont, Naples, Prussia, Russia, Austria and Portugal. Russia refused to commit soldiers to the coalition when Britain did not send money to support her armies.

Question 39

Requisitioning

Answer 39

Compulsory purchase by the government of supplies of food and horses paid for in assignats – the new paper currency.

Question 40

Danton

Answer 40

- 1792: Appointed minister of Justice: gives rousing speech calling for the defence of the nation after the fall of Verdun to Prussians - 1793: joins CPS, calls for slowing down of the terror - 1794: Labelled by his enemies an Indulgent and executed

Question 41

CPS created

Answer 41

April 6th 1793

Question 42

Gerondin deputies purged

Answer 42

June 2nd 1793

Question 43

Constitution of 1793 approved

Answer 43

June 24th 1793

Question 44

Levee en mass issues calling for total war

Answer 44

August 23rd 1793

Question 45

Law of 14 Frimaire establishes Revolutionary government

Answer 45

December 4th 1793

Question 46

Coup of Thermidor

Answer 46

July 27-28 1794

Question 47

Prairial Uprising

Answer 47

May 20–23 1795

Question 48

Constitution of Year III

Answer 48

August 22 1795

Question 49

Vendémiaire Uprising

Answer 49

October 1st 1795

Question 50

Directory established

Answer 50

Nov 2 1795

Question 51

Coup d’état of Fructidor

Answer 51

September 4 1797

Question 52

Law of 22 Floréal

Answer 52

May 11 1798

Question 53

Coup d’état of Brumaire

Answer 53

November 9-10 1799

Question 54

Constitution of Year VIII

Answer 54

December 25 1799

Question 55

Regicides

Answer 55

Those involved in the trial and execution of Louis XVI.

Question 56

Peace of Campo Formio ends the war between Austria and France:

Answer 56

18 October 1797