Dates and facts Flashcards by Orla McMenamin

Louis exilés paris parlement

1770

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France joins American War of independence by declaring war on britain

1778

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Calonne tells Louis royal finances are insolvent

1786

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Amount the french provided in America

By 1777 5 million livres

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French population by 1780 compared to 1700

27 million - was 21.5 million in 1700

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Increase in commerce between 1715 and 1771

8 fold - second to britain in trade worldwide

- trade with the colonies quadrupled

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Increase in industrial production

doubled between 1715 and 1771

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Silk harvest fail year?

1787

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unemployment from 1788-1789

46000 in Amiens
10000 in Carcassonne
25,000 in Lyon

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percentage of wage bread prices

Aug 1788 - 50%

July 1789 - 75% up to almost 88% for some

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Bad harvest

1788

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Debt 1788

4000 million

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Assembly of notables is called

December 1786

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Assembly of notables is dismissed

25 May 1787

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Paris Parlement rejects Louis’ land tax reforms

2 July 1787

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Louis and Brienne forced registration of tax reforms through using a lit de justice + Paris parlement declares it illegal

August 1787

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Louis dismisses Calonne

April 1787

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Assembly of Notables facts

144 members from the second estate and some clergy

Called in an attempt to reform the tax system

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Who replaced Calonne and when

Brienne - May 1787

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Louis exiled thé Paris Parlement to Troyes

May 1788

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Louis abolishes parlements power to review legislation

5 May 1788

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Louis summons Paris Parlement back

September 1788

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Louis exilés his cousin duc d’Orleans by lettre du cache

November 1788

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Louis pushes through more loans with lit de justice

1788

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Louis promises to call Estates General by 1792

1788

Parlement issue the ‘Fundemental laws of the kingdom’ - when and about what

May 1788 | - criticises thé lettre de cachet and they demand the Estates General is called to verify any tax reforms

Kings response to the fundamental laws

arrests two members of the Paris Parlement by lettre de cachet

May edicts - when and what

8 May 1788 - removed powers of parlements and putting it to local level courts - set up new court of nobles appointed by the king who would take responsibility for registration of laws

Mob in Grenoble - when, name and why?

Day of tiles - June 1788 | - response to May edicts demanding reinstatement of their local parlement

response to may edicts

- Provincial Parlements flooded royal court with remonstrances - Paris Parlement led cries to end lettre de cachet and imprisonment without trial

Brienne calls for larger don gratuit - when + what happens

June 1788 | Church offer 1/4 of what was expected

Louis forces to call estates general - why

-short term loans dried up - Brienne had to suspend payments from the royal treasury THEY NEEDED MONEY

France declared bankrupt

August 1788

Brienne resigns - when + who replaces him

July 1788 | Neckar

First meeting of Estates General

May 1789

when and what did Neckar and Louis decide for the 3rd estates representation

December 1788 | they should have double representation

Flour wars

1775 - due to increase in grain prices

Compte rendu au roi - when and what

Neckar’s document presented to the king stating situation of France’s finances - leaving out 46 million deficit from american war

Resignation of Turgot - when + why

1776 Six Edicts got rejected and he failed to reform taxes replaced by Neckar

Turgot six edicts

surpress trade guilds increase competition abolish the corvée land owners pay tax

Neckar finance minister dates first time

1777-81

Calonne dates

1783-7

Sieyes publishes what is the third estate

Jan 1789

Cahiers de doléances - date facts and meaning

May 1789 | 40,000 produced - list of grievances for discussion at Estates General

Who wrote up the cahiers de doléances

Society of Thirty - lafayette

First day of Estates General

5 May 1789 King and Neckar make speeches - annoy the 3rd estate as it doesn’t address any of the issues (voting by head or constitutional representation)

Rest of May of Estates General

6 - each order examined their deputies - 3rd estate thought all of them should do it together Confusion in early debates as none of the deputies knew each other

4 June - Neckar’s desicion + King leaves

Third Estate invited clergy to consult in their hall - no reply and called the king to come and help Neckar proposed each order should examine the credentials do its own members The dauphine died - King has to leave to grieve

EG - 5june - 17

Sieyes proposes all of the estates join together 12 June - names of those who want to join - NO NOBLES 14th - 6 priests join 15th - 70 more priests join Sieyes proposed that the third estate represented 96% of the nation and should therefore rename themselves ‘Represenatives of the People’ - the name the ‘National Assembly’ approved 491 votes to 89

EG - 18th June - 22nd june

3rd estate locked out

Tennis Court Oath

20 June 1789

Séance royale and Louis proposes 35 point program

23rd of June

Louis recognises the National Assembly and joins Estates

24 June 1789

Neckar dismisses by Louis - RIOTS

11 July 1789

National Guard and Paris Commune established

13 July 1789

Bastille is stormed

14 July 1789

Lafayette becomes leader of the NG

15 July 1789

Louis recognises NG NA and Paris Commune

17 July 1789

Great Fear begins

17 July 1789

August Decrees announced

4 August 1789

Declaration of the Rights of Man announced

26 August 1789

National Assembly give Louis a suspensive veto - he fails to ratify the Aug Decrees

11 September 1789

Banquet at Versailles

1 Oct 1789

Women’s march on Versailles

5-6 Oct 1789

Versailles stormed and Louis and National Assembly are forced back to Paris, Louis agreed to ratify decrees

6 Oct 1789

Church land and property seized and nationalised

2 November 1789

Assignats used as legal tender

12 Dec 1789

Nobility abolished by NA

19 May 1790

Réorganisation of Paris into sections

2 July 1790

Abolition of Parlements

16 August 1790

Civil Consitution of the Clergy

12 July 1790

Oath for the CC of C introduced

Nov 1790

Pope Pius VI condemns CC of C

March 1791

Flight to Varennes

20 June 1791

Champ du Mars massacre

16-17 July 1791

Champ du mars - how many go and die

6000 | 50 dead

Declaration of Pillnitz

27 August 1791

What was the declaration of Pillnitz

Prussia and Holy Roman empire calling on European powers to intervene in France and restore the monarch - they will do it but force if needed

NA dissolved and Legislative Assembly established

Sept/ 1 Oct 1791

Assembly decrees against emigres and refractory priests and Louis vétos

Nov 1791