January Mock Flashcards
(402 cards)
Start supplying aid to US
1776
Aid sent in 1777
5 million livres
Debt in 1783
3.3 million livres with 45% of expenditure on debt
Poor harvests
1785
Assembly of Notables
Feb - May 1787
When were the parliaments lectured by the King?
Dec 1785
Expenditure on debt in 1788
50%
Calonne’s reform package
1786
Turgot’s Six Edicts
1776 - abolish privilege, Corvee royale and guilds forced through with lit de justice but later abandoned
Comte Rendu
1781
Nobility land ownership
25-33%
Percentage of population RCC
97%
Literacy rate in urban France
60%
Montesquieu
Separation of power + constitutional monarchy
Voltaire
Freedom of speech, lettres de cachet, anti-clericalism
Rousseau
Government derived from the people, anticlericalism
Diderot
Against organised religion
Turgot
1774-1776
Necker
1777-1781
Calonne
1783-1787
Brienne
Appointed after Assembly of Notables, failed land tax - lit de justice failed and petitions for EG start in July 1787.
Revolt of the Nobles
May-Aug 1788, Prov. Parlements flooded with remonstrances.
Don gratuit partially granted
June 1788
Day of Tiles
June 1788