History - France Flashcards
(30 cards)
Ancient regime
Fealty Oath
“You are mine, to do with as I wish” (the hand of the lord is kissed as he says this by those lower then him)
Histiography - Gregory S. Brown
Ancient regime
Sovreign power
Sovereign power in his Kingdom Belongs to the King alone… he is accountable only to God for the exercise of supreme power
Primary - Lamoignan
Enlightenment and New ideas
Oath
To take an oath “to prefer virtue, truth and justice over everything”
Histiography - Simon Schama
Enlightenment and New ideas
Morals
Not of Nobles, but of moral
Histiography - Simon Schama
Enlightenment and New ideas
Third Estate
In January 1789, Abbe Sieyes’ pamphlet What is the Third Estate “hit the revolutionary scene like a bombshell”
Histiography - Simon Schama
Debt dissent and doleances
Patriots went far
The patriots went far beyond the suggestions of the cahier de doleances
Histiography - Michal Adcock
Debt dissent and doleances
Impact of inflation
Workmen today need twice as much money for their substance, yet they earn no more than fifty years ago when living was half as cheap
Histiography - Picardy
1789
X before Y
We are citizens before Soldiers, Frenchman before slaves
Primary - an old comrade of the Gardes Francaises
1789
old regime
It seen that the old regime was to be swept away overnigh
Histiography - Simon Schama
Leaders of the Revolution
Leaders?
Leaders, we call them, but indeed they were led - or rather, swept off their feet, and carried along by a movement which they were powerless to control.
Histiography - Thompson p ix
Revolution in the Provinces
Whatever the cost
No matter how horrible these events maybe, we think that the ministers were preparing even more terrible actions. The behaviour of the courts & ministers is so horrible & oppressive that we must free ourselves from them, no matter the price
Primary - Greuze-Latouche 3rd estate deputy for the estates general, lawyer July 14t 1789
Revolution in the Provinces
troops didn’t arrive
When the promised brigand and foreign troops did not arrive, armed peasants turned and struck at their local nobility
Histiography - Peter Mc Phee
On divisions within the Church
It was in the Church, more than any other group in France, that the separation between rich and poor was most bitterly articulated.
Histiography - Simon Schama
On the declaration of the National Assembly
The decision marked the beginnings of the real revolution and it was largely as a result of the indecision of Louis XVI
Fenwick and Anderson
Regarding the Flight to Varennes
From this moment the King appeared as the most dangerous foe to the mass of the people; the Flight to Varennes had finally torn off the mask and revealed him in his true colour
Soboul
On the September Massacres
… a good case… might be made for seeing the September Massacres as an event which… exposed a central truth of the French Revolution: its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends. For however virtuous the principles of kingless France were supposed to be, their power to compel allegiance depended, from the very beginning, on the spectacle of death.
Histiography - Simon Schama
On the Terror
The central purpose of the Terror was to institute the emergency and draconian measures necessary at a time of military crisis.
Mcphee
On the August Insurrection
[the Revolution] was nor armed, democratic and republican.
Mcphee
Terror was not caused by Jacobin leadership
The institutions of the Terror had been created long before Robespierre joined the government on 26th July 1793.
Lewis
Terror was caused by Jacobin leadership
In 1793 terrorist discourse was in the mouths of nearly all the leaders of the Revolution. Conceived in order to exterminate aristocracy, the Terror ended as a means of subduing wrongdoers and combatting crime. From now on it coincided with and was inseparable from the Revolution, because there was no other way of someday moulding a republic of citizens.
Furet
On the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
In the end, it proved impossible to reconcile a church based on divinely ordained hierarchy… with a revolution based on popular sovereignty.
Mcphee
On the Flight to Varennes
The events of that night would prove a turning point in the history of the Revolution and the of the French monarchy, with an enormous immediate impact on Paris, and on the National Assembly and indeed on the whole of France and Europe.
Tackett
On the Storming of the Bastille
[it was] the climax of the popular movement.
Doyle
On the French economy up to 1789
[there was] enough for the government to function for one afternoon.
Histiography - Simon Schama
