The Sans-Culottes

Question 1

Journee - Storming of Tuileries

Answer 1

20 June 1792

Question 2

Following war losses, the La Patrie en Danger is issued

Answer 2

11 July 1792

Question 3

Significance of the ‘La Patrie en Danger’ (3)

Answer 3

1) National Guard opens up to passive citizens, allowing non-bourgeoise, more radical sans-culottes into the ranks of the army
2) Pikes are given to citizens
3) Radical Federes soldiers called into Paris

Question 4

Brunswick Manifesto

Answer 4

1 August 1792

Question 5

Significance of Brunswick Manifesto

Answer 5

1) Declares and exposes Louis as a counter-revolutionary
2) Mass radical movement preparing a new insurrection

Question 6

Journee - Insurrection of Tuileries Palace

Answer 6

10 August 1792

Question 7

Stats of the insurrection

Answer 7

20,000 armed sans-culottes, federes, and national guards stormed the palace

Question 8

Journee - September Massacres

Answer 8

2-7 September 1792

Question 9

Simon Schama - September Massacres

Answer 9

The event which more than almost any other exposed a central truth of the French Revolution: its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends

Question 10

Statistics - September Massacres

Answer 10

1400 summarily killed by a predominantly sans-culottes mob

Question 11

William Doyle - Causes of the September Massacres

Answer 11

‘the paranoid atmosphere in Paris’

Question 12

Causes of the September Massacres

Answer 12

1) Brunswick Manifesto and the deteriorating war situation
2) Influence of radical journalists such as Marat
3) Development and arming of the sans-culottes due to La Patrie en Danger

Question 13

Journee - Expulsion of the Girondins - Total radicalisation of Paris

Answer 13

31 May - 2 June 1793

Question 14

Law of the Maximum

Answer 14

17 September 1793