Chapter 9

Question 1

What did sans-culottes and girondins agree on?

Answer 1

supported republican government
supported the war
believed in the need for further enlightened reforms

Question 2

Montagnards and Girondins

Differences in support

Answer 2

Montagnards - centralised strong in Paris

Girondins - decentralised strong in rural areas

Question 3

Montagnards and Girondins view on

sans culottes

Answer 3

Montagnards - favoured sans-culottes and responded to their demands (maximum prices)

Girondins - suspicious of sans-culottes and feared their activism (free market economy)

Question 4

Montagnards and Girondins view

politcal setting

Answer 4

Montagnards - radical, militant approach was necessary

Girondins - moderate way to reform

Question 5

Montagnards and Girondins view on Louis

Answer 5

Montagnards- wanted to see the King executed

Girondins - accepting his guilt but did not support death penalty

Question 6

When was France declared a republic

Answer 6

22 September 1792

Question 7

Leading Montagnards

Answer 7

Chaumette - president of the Paris Commune

Marat - journalist “La ami du peuple”

Hebert - “Le Pere Duchesne”

Danton - Minister of Justice (sans culottes favourite)

Robbespierre - Jacobine leader and CPS

Petition - Major of Paris

Question 8

Leading Girondins

Answer 8

Brissot - leader of the Girodins

Roland - Minister of the Interior

Dumoriez - General, defected to Austrians in April 93

Question 9

What hindered the National Convention of working properly

Answer 9

Montagnards and Girodins opposed each other constantly, Plain’s loyalties were fickle, personal attacks

Question 10

Battle of Jemappes

Answer 10

November 1792

(2 months after Sep massacres)

Question 11

What was the effect of the victory at Jemappes

Answer 11

November 6, 1792

Growing Girondin support, Edict of Fraternity and other decrees,

Question 12

Problems caused by the war

Answer 12

Inflation and sporadic peasant rioting

Question 13

Peasant rioting as a result of the war?

Answer 13

CHOUAN REBELLION

• opposed conscription
• opposed religious changes

Jacobins exploited the rioting arguing for more central control

Question 14

Debate on the KIng’s fate key aspects

Answer 14

360/361 for death without conditions

Girondins - appeal to the people

occupied much of the discussions in November and December 92

Question 15

When was Louis executed

Answer 15

21 January 93