VOcab Flashcards
Jaques Necker
New finance minister who exposes the problems with French Finance (paid on aristocracy)
Issue of French Debt
- They borrowed a lot of money to finance the American Revolution
- Building and Maintenance of Versailles
- Funding (pensions) of aristocracy
Assembly of Notables
Group called by Jacques Necker who calls for the Estates general
Estates General
Called together to solve the financial crisis- Start taxing the Nobles Not called since the 16th century Estates: 1. Clergy 2. Nobility 3. Everyone ellse
Cahiers de Doleances
List of complaints from the third estate
Tennis Court Oath (06-20-1789)
Louis XVI locked out the 3rd estate so they went to the tennis courts Promise amongst members not to disband before they write a constitution
National Assembly
new name for the 3rd estate after making the tennis court oath.
A.K.A National Constituent Assembly
Storming of the Bastille (07-14-1789)
The lower class storming the Bastille (political prison) they stole arms and took the governor, killed him, and paraded his head on a stick. -the Bastille was a Symbol of Bourbon oppression
Great Fear
Great panic on the French countryside because they were worried that there were bandits on the countrysides stealing and burning farms
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The declaration of basic human rights of life liberty and property and others (speech religion)
March on Versailles
Working women of Paris skeptical of National Assembly and they march on Versailles because they want the king back and paris and want attention. Looking for Marie Antoinette
Assignats
Assignat was a type of a monetary instrument used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars.
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Says all French priests will be elected then paid by the French Revolutionary Government and if they dont take an oath they will go to jail
Emigres
any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789.
Flight to Varennes (06-20-1791)
Tries to flee then gets caught at Varennes and was captured
Jacobins
Radicals pushing for a French Republic
Girondists/Mountain
Girondists- Moderate
Mountain- Radical- Wants Republic and Louis XVI Dead
Sans-Culottes
Radical Left wingers- Working class
September Massacres
Fear of revolution from outside (Austrians and Prussians)
Any anti revolutionaries were dragged from their prison cells and killed by the working class
National Convention
Formerly National Assembly.
1792 was year 1 of the French Republic
Reign of Terror (1793-94)
Fear that the counter revolution will defeat the French Revolution. Rebellion in the Western part of France. Any suspicion of being a counter revolutionary will earn a sentence of beheading
Committee of Public Safety
Executive Power of the French Government
Run by Robespierre
Republic of Virtue
Declared by Robespierre
Tries to move away from being a Catholic country
Focus on enlightment and revolution
DeChristianization
Taking away catholicism, Changing the calendar (10 day week- forget sunday- orget catholicism), changing names of churches,
Robespierre
Head of the Committee of Public Safety
Keeps the reign of terror going
Law of 22 Parial
Robespierre saying anyone who speaks out against revolutionary will be sentenced to beheading without trial
Thermidorian Reaction
July 1794- Claim robespierre as a tyrant arrest him andd put him to death
Directory
Body that takes over after robespierre
