Timeline, Terms And Figures Flashcards
What date was the estates general last called?
1614
When did France declare bankruptcy?
16th August 1788
When was the treaty of Versailles?
1783
Who were liberal nobles?
Marquis de Lafayette, the Duke of Noailles
Abbé Emmanuel Sieyès
- lota
- drew up pamphlet ‘What is the Third Estate?’ in which he argued that it was the most important part of the nation- beginning of the self confident bourgeoisie and sans culottes
What was the popular movement?
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.
Citizens’ militia
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.
Menu people
Used to describe ordinary people living in towns.
When did the EG meet at Versailles?
May 5 1789
When was the start of the great fear?
July 20th 1789
When were the August decrees passed?
4th August 1789
Dec of Rights of Man and the Citizen
August 26th 1789
October Days
Oct 5-6 1789
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
July 12th 1790
Flight to Varennes
June 20th 1791
Champ de Mars massacre
July 17th 1791
Final abolition of feudalism
17th July 1793
Declaration of Pillnitz
August 27 1791
War declared on Austria
April 20th 1792
Overthrow of the monarchy/ August journee
August 10th 1792
September Massacres
September 2-6 1792
Proclamation of the Republic
September 22 1792
Decree of Fraternity
November 19 1792
June journee
June 20th 1792
Brunswick manifesto
August 1st 1792
Victory at Valmy
September 20th 1792
Louis’ execution
January 21st 1793
War declared on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic
February 1st 1793
Revolt in the Vendee
March 11th 1793
Battle of Wattignies
October 16th 1793
Austrian Committee
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.
Revolutionary War
Fought by France against other European powers between 1792 and 1802.
Fédérés
Mainly national guardsmen sent from the provinces to display national unity during the Fête de la Fédération that commemorated the fall of the Bastille.
Paris Sections
Paris was divided into 48 sections to replace the 60 electoral districts of 1789 – the section became the power base of the sans-culottes.
La patrie en danger
- issued 11th July 1792
‘The fatherland is in danger’ became a rallying cry to ordinary people to help save the country.
Montagnards
The Mountain – the name given to Jacobin deputies who occupied the upper seats in the tiered chamber of the National Assembly.
Appel nominal
Each deputy was required to declare publicly his decision on the guilt or innocence of
Louis XVI.
The first coalition
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.
Requisitioning
Compulsory purchase by the government of supplies of food and horses paid for in assignats – the new paper currency.
Danton
- 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
CPS created
April 6th 1793
Gerondin deputies purged
June 2nd 1793
Constitution of 1793 approved
June 24th 1793
Levee en mass issues calling for total war
August 23rd 1793
Law of 14 Frimaire establishes Revolutionary government
December 4th 1793
Coup of Thermidor
July 27-28 1794
Prairial Uprising
May 20–23 1795
Constitution of Year III
August 22 1795
Vendémiaire Uprising
October 1st 1795
Directory established
Nov 2 1795
Coup d’état of Fructidor
September 4 1797
Law of 22 Floréal
May 11 1798
Coup d’état of Brumaire
November 9-10 1799
Constitution of Year VIII
December 25 1799
Regicides
Those involved in the trial and execution of Louis XVI.
Peace of Campo Formio ends the war between Austria and France:
18 October 1797
