Developments in the country and the great fear

Question 1

great fear

Answer 1

• 17 July - 3rd august 1789
• Attacked houses of royal officials forcing them to flee
• Old municipal town councils were reform into national guard units to maintain a citizens authority
• Peasants believed that changes in the capital would result in the end of their burden
• Refused to pay taxes and attacked their lords chateaux
• Destroyed their masters terriers (feudal rights) and titres de ventes et devoirs which record dues owned
• Believed if these were destroyed their feudal obligations would disappear

Question 2

economic issues

Answer 2

• 1788 spring droughts followed by poor harvest and a bad winter
• Cahiers de doleances and elections had raised expectations of reform
• Story circulated that the nobles were stealing grain, preparing to attack farming families, or the ones that had fled were coming back with foreign armies to attack the peasants

Question 3

The abolition of feudal rights (August decrees)

Answer 3

• 4th august 1789
• To ensure the peasants paid their state taxes and to further enlightenment values
• Other decrees were worked out
• All feudal dues were abolished without compensation to landlords
• Exclusive rights of hunting and owning pigeons were abolished
• All tithes and fees abolished
• No more venality

Question 4

The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

Answer 4

• Passed on the 26th august
• laid out the principle of liberty equality and fraternity
• Louis refused to accept the AD and DM
• Went against his sense of duty and belief in divine right

Question 5

The October days (why)

Answer 5

• Louis remained hesitant and contraceptive
• Assembly curbs his power by offering him a suspensory veto rather than an absolute one
• Seen summoning troops back into paris and fear that the assembly would be closed soared
• A banquet is held to celebrate the reuters of the kings flounder where they toast oaths of loyalty to the king and apparently destroy the revolutionary tribunal

Question 6

The October days (5th october)

Answer 6

• 6000 Women struggling to feed their families march forma paris to versaille followed by lafayette and the national guard to maintain order
• Gain access to the palace and press louis to accept the AD and DM
• After accepting the royal family are escorted to paris as their new home - 6th october
• 2 weeks later the assembly also move to paris making them subject to the scrutiny of the parisian mob

Question 7

consequences and aftermath

Answer 7

• beginning of a more radical phase
• formal abolition of feudalism
• october days shifted power to the national assembly