Up To Around The Storming Of The Bastille

Question 1

Corvée

Answer 1

Labor tax instituted by the Ancien Regime and abolished in 1789

Question 2

Taille

Answer 2

Property tax instituted by the Ancien Regime

Question 3

Flour War

Answer 3

Series of riots in 1775 due to high costs of bread due to freeing the grain trade (Turgot), led to the idea that rich people were hoarding bread

Question 4

Comte de Vergennes

Answer 4

Foreign minister of France in the 1770s to 80s who supported financially helping the Americans in the American Revolution to humiliate the British

Question 5

Anne Robert Turgot

Answer 5

Controller General of Finances in the 1760s and 70s, prominent physiocrat, opposed helping the Americans in the American revolution because of financial concerns

Question 6

Jacques Necker

Answer 6

Controller general/finance minister of France who ignored France’s growing financial problems through the writing of his Compte Rendu; father of Germaine de Staël and his dismissal from the ministry sparked the storming of the Bastille

Question 7

Compte Rendu

Answer 7

Jacques Necker’s Report to the King that helped to hide how bad France’s financial situation was with “ordinary” and “extraordinary” expense columns

Question 8

Charles de Calonne

Answer 8

Controller-general of finances before Necker and tried to reform French economics by convening an assembly of notables to aprove a reform package (however, this did not work at all)

Question 9

Etienne Brienne

Answer 9

Archbishop from Toulouse (although he was likely an athiest) and President of Calonne’s Assembly of Notables. After Calonne is dismissed, he becomes controller-general of finances in all but name; announces the convening of the Estates General

Question 10

Rene Nicholas de Maupeou

Answer 10

Chief minister of France during the reign of Louis XV and last lord chancellor of France, reformed the French judicial system and stripped power from the French parlement, actions that were both reversed during the reign of Louis XVI

Question 11

May Edicts

Answer 11

Implemented by Brienne in 1788 and created a plenary court for judicial matters which diminished the power of the parlement; because of the popularity of the parlement among the peasant class, this was a hated action

Question 12

Day of the Tiles

Answer 12

Took place in the town of Grenoble and was a mob uprising that happened in reaction to the May Edicts; consisted of peasants throwing roof tiles on soldiers which gave the event its name

Question 13

Jean-Joseph Mounier

Answer 13

A lawyer who argued for the doubling of the third estate and a vote by head in the Estates-General, was the leader of the Monarchiens faction but eventually quit the National Assembly after votes etc. went in a disagreeable direction

Question 14

National Assembly

Answer 14

Created in June 1789 by third estate delegates to the Estates-General after they were kept from conferring with members of the other estates; became the provisional government of France after the fall of the monarchy

Question 15

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 15

Taken in the tennis court of the Tuileries Palace by members of the National Assembly who promised that they would never disband

Question 16

Storming of the Bastille

Answer 16

Took place on July 14, 1789 and was started by the sacking of Jacques Necker and was prompted on by a speech by Camille Demoulins made in the Palau Royale; the event included the mounting of Paris governor de Launay’s (who had been in charge of holding off the mob) head on a pike