Chapter 4

Question 1

When was the Assembly of Notables in session?
Why was it called?

Answer 1

Feb-May 1787
To overcome political deadlock over calonnes financial reforms

Question 2

What had Louis & Calonne hoped the Assembly would be but weren’t?
Why?

Answer 2

Docile
Members from 1st & 2nd estate
Clergy hostile to plans to tax church
Notables not convinced of severity of crisis

Question 3

Why does the assembly turn in Calonne?
What does Calonne respond with?

Answer 3

Not convinced of severity of crisis so Calonne pointed out necker’s inconsistencies in his 1781 budget statement
Necker responded with published attack on Calonne

Question 4

Why did the notables distrust & uncooperative with Calonne?

Answer 4

Calonne published articles accusing Notables of self-indulgence getting in way of change
Untrue as many effected by englightenment
(After assembly had turned on Calonne after necker’s publishings)

Question 5

When does Louis remove Calonne?
Who replaced Calonne?

Answer 5

April 1787
Brienne

Question 6

What were brienne’s reform proposals based on?
What were they?

Answer 6

Predecessors
Supported spread of edu
Est central treasury
Extended tolerance to Protestants
Deregulated grain trade

Question 7

What we’re briennes plans overshadowed by?

Answer 7

Need for money

Question 8

When did Brienne’s attempts become futile?

Answer 8

As trust in gov broke down

Question 9

What cry did the notables take up?
What did this cause?

Answer 9

No tax without representation & supported the idea of an Estates General
Louis dismissed assembly May 1787

Question 10

What did Brienne resort to after the dismissal of the assembly in May 1787?

Answer 10

A loan
Turns to Parlements

Question 11

How does the Paris Parlement not cooperate with Brienne?
Why?

Answer 11

Doesn’t endorse land tax or higher stamp duties
Number of notables in Paris Parlement

Question 12

Who ‘spoke for the nation’?
When did this idea emerge?

Answer 12

The Parlements
After May 1787

Question 13

When is the Paris Parlement banished?
Where to?
Why?

Answer 13

1787
Troyes
Refusal to pass brienne’s tax proposals

Question 14

What is the banishment of the Paris Parlement seen as?
What does it cause?

Answer 14

Royal gov overextending itself & being illegal
Paris tools increase

Question 15

When is the Paris Parlement recalled?
Why?

Answer 15

September 1787
Financial crisis

Question 16

What was exchanged with Louis if he called an E-G?
When did he have to do this by?

Answer 16

Laws approving more loans forced through with lit de justice
1792

Question 17

What is issued by Parlement in between the promising & calling of E-G?
What did this state?
When?

Answer 17

Fundamental laws of the people
Laws couldn’t be changed, even by royal demand, without E-G consent
May 1788

Question 18

What did Louis respond to Parlements fundamental laws of the kingdom with?

Answer 18

May edicts 1788
Plans to remove palrement’s powers

New plenary court of notables, officials & magistrates, appointed by Louis
Number of judges in Paris p reduced

Question 19

How are the May edicts passed?
What is parlement’s reaction?
What did this cause?

Answer 19

Lit de justice
Protests causing months of chaos
Complete breakdown of royal control

Question 20

When was the revolt of the nobles?

Answer 20

May - Aug 1788

Question 21

During the revolt of the nobles, what was royal court flooded with?
What did Paris p call for?
What consented emerged?

Answer 21

Remonstrance
End to lettres de cachet & imprisonment without trial

General will
Rule of law

Question 22

What happened as royal authority collapsed during the revolt of the nobles?

Answer 22

Taxes unpayed
Confidence in gov disappeared

Question 23

What was the famous rising that broke out during the revolt of the nobles?

Answer 23

Day of tiles
June
Grenoble
Royal troops arrived to restore order pelted with stones

Question 24

Why was Louis forced to call the E-G for 1789?

Answer 24

August - France is bankrupt
Short term fixes but E-G necessary for long term improvement

Question 25

Why was France bankrupt by august 1788?

Answer 25

Brienne suspended payments from royal treasury
Then short term loans dried up

Question 26

When Brienne resigned in 1788 after France became bankrupt, who was he replaced by?
Who requested his resignation?

Answer 26

Necker on 25 august
Marie Antoinette

Question 27

Before the start of the E-G what we’re the issues on procedures that were adopted?

Answer 27

Equal rep or 3rd estate have more deputies
Method of debate: estates meet Sep or as a single body
Voting by head or by estate (1 & 2 off vote same against 3 but each estate gets 1 vote)

Question 28

Who became the fighters of the people & their rights leading up to the E-G?

Answer 28

Parlements —> new leaders
Enlightened nobles rather than 3rd estate members

Question 29

When did the E-G last meet?

Answer 29

1614

Question 30

When did the 3rd estate become politicised?

Answer 30

Months leading up to E-G

Question 31

What did the society of 30 do?
How did they achieve this?
Who was a member?
When?

Answer 31

Encouraged 3rd estate to fight for rights
Through pamphlets & meetings
Lafayette (hero of American war)
Leading up to E-G

Question 32

When did Louis & nobles let 3rd estate have double the rep in E-G?
Why was this useless?

Answer 32

Dec 1788, leading up to E-G
Didn’t change voting by estate to by head

Question 33

What was the title of Sieyes’ pamphlet?
When was it published?
What did it state?

Answer 33

What is the 3rd estate
Jan 1789, leading up to E-G
3rd estate everything

Question 34

Why was the economic situation bad before the E-C?
(Out of Louis control)

Answer 34

Poor harvest 1788
Unemployment increase as textile production halved
1789 Parisian workers spending 88% of wages on bread

Question 35

What was produced for discussion in E-G by each estate?

Answer 35

Cahiers de doleances (list of grievances)