May-October 1789 Flashcards
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Estates-General
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- 5th May 1789
- 1200 representatives at Versailles
- No agenda for ‘reform package’
- No indication of voting procedures
2
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National Assembly
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- 17th June 1789
- Third estate refused to meet separately
- Voted 490-90 to call themselves ‘National Assembly’
3
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What did the National Assembly claim
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- To represent the French nation
- Have right to decide taxation
4
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Tennis Court Oath
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- 20th June 1789
- Members of National Assembly swore oath
- ‘To never disband until France had a new constitution’
5
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Why were tensions high in Paris on 11th July 1789
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- 30,000 troops in Paris
- Popular Necker dismissed - confirmed fears of King preventing reform
- Poor harvest = bread prices highest since 1715
6
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Storming of Bastille
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- 14th July 1789
- 8000 Sans-Culottes armed with muskets - Descended on Bastille
- De Launey murdered - 93 killed
- King forced to address Parisians - reinstated Necker and accepted National Assembly
7
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The Great Fear
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- 17th July 1789
- Rumours of disorder in Paris - spread to Countryside
- Peasants refused to pay taxes - destroyed masters records of obligations
8
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Abolition of Feudal rights
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- 4th August 1789
- To appease peasants after Great fear
- National Assembly voted for August Decrees
9
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4 August decrees
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- Abolition of feudal rights
- Tithe abolished
- All citizens to be taxed equally
- All eligible to any office in Church, state or army
10
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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- 26th August 1789
- Derived from Enlightenment principles
- All citizens equal
- Conceding these measures went strongly against King’s belief of Divine Right
11
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Suspensive veto for Louis
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- September 1789
- National assembly vote for suspensory veto
- He could delay laws for 4 years - But not veto them completely
12
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March to Versailles
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- 5th October 1789
- King’s banquet - tricolore reportedly desecrated - rising bread prices - Created intense public outrage
- Armed crowd 6000 (mostly women) marched to Versailles from Paris
- Louis forced to accept August decrees
- Royal family imprisoned in Tuileries
