Lecture 2 : The French Revolution

Question 1

Convocation of the Estates-General

Answer 1

August 8, 1788

Question 2

Who does Louis 16th appoints as minister of finances after the Estates General?

Answer 2

Necker

Question 3

«Jeu de Paume» Oath

Answer 3

June 20, 1789

Question 4

Louis 16th pronounces the dissolution of the Estates-General

Answer 4

June 23, 1789

Question 5

What does Mirabeau answers to the dissolution ?

Answer 5

That they won’t leave unless they use the bayonets

Question 6

National Constituent Assembly

Answer 6

July 9, 1789

Question 7

Abolition of feudalism in France

Answer 7

August 4, 1789

Question 8

Women march to Versailles and bring back the King to Paris

Answer 8

October 5&6, 1789

Question 9

New title for the French King

Answer 9

King of the French

Question 10

National Properties

Answer 10

November 2, 1789

Question 11

Abolition of religious orders

Answer 11

February 13, 1790

Question 12

Civil Constitution of the French Clergy

Answer 12

July 12, 1790

Question 13

What was the aim of the Civil Constitution of the French Clergy ?

Answer 13

To subordinate Roman Catholic Church in France to French Government

Question 14

Clergy has to sign an oath of loyalty to the Republic

Answer 14

November 1790

Question 15

King’s Executive power granted by the Constitution

Answer 15

• ministers
• suspending veto on laws
• foreign policy
• army

Question 16

legislative power in the Constitutional Monarchy

Answer 16

held by the National Assembly : laws, taxes, war and peace

Question 17

number of départements created

Answer 17

83

Question 18

fondamental reforms implemented by the Revolution

Answer 18

• judicial
• equality before taxation
• economic liberalism
• civil marriage, divorce and inheritances
  citizenship and civil rights to Protestants and Jews
• abolition of slavery in France

Question 19

Olympe de Gouges : The Rights of Women

Answer 19

1791

Question 20

Louis 16 accepts the new constitution

Answer 20

September 14, 1791

Question 21

Legislative assembly following the National Constituent Assembly

Answer 21

October 1, 1791

Question 22

Where did opposition rise in France ?

Answer 22

South, Vendée and Aslsace

Question 23

Declaration of Pilnitz

Answer 23

August 27, 1791

Question 24

What was the Declaration of Pilnitz ?

Answer 24

A statement from Marie-Antoinette’s brother (Leopold II king of Austria) expressing concerns over Republic’s wish to expend

Question 25

France declares war on Austria

Answer 25

April 20, 1792

Question 26

Storming of the Tuileries Palace

Answer 26

June 20, 1792

Question 27

Patrie en danger

Answer 27

July 1792

Question 28

Brunswick manifesto

Answer 28

August 1792

Question 29

What is the Brunswick manifesto ?

Answer 29

made by the commander of the allied army warning that no harm should be made to the royal family otherwise civilians would be hurt

Question 30

end of monarchy

Answer 30

August 10, 1792

Question 31

Insurrection in Vendée

Answer 31

August 22, 1792

Question 32

slaughters in Paris prisons

Answer 32

2 - 5 september 1792

Question 33

Why slaughters in Paris prisons ?

Answer 33

fear that royal and foreign armies would free the inmates that would then join them

Question 34

victory at Valmy

Answer 34

September 20, 1792

Question 35

Convention

Answer 35

September 21, 1792

Question 36

Number of committees under the Convention and main ones

Answer 36

16 : - General Security - Public Safety

Question 37

What did the republic promised to foreign countries ?

Answer 37

« Fraternity and assistance to all peoples who want to recover their liberty »

Question 38

What did the republican army do in occupied territories ?

Answer 38

Abolition of all feudal dures and tithes

Question 39

Louis XVI convicted of treason and put to death

Answer 39

January 21, 1793

Question 40

Who did the terror aim for ?

Answer 40

enemies of the revolution

Question 41

Robespierre, Saint-Just and their partisans arrested

Answer 41

July 27, 1794

Question 42

Committee of Public Safety : power greatly reduced

Answer 42

July 1794

Question 43

Jacobins Clubs are banned

Answer 43

November 1794

Question 44

new french constitution that founds the Directory

Answer 44

August 1795

Question 45

name of the two assemblies under the Directory

Answer 45

- Council of five hundred that proposes legislation | - Council of the Ancients (250) that discusses and votes legislation

Question 46

What were the elements that caused an economic hardship for the directory ?

Answer 46

- destructions - military requisitions - inflation

Question 47

royalist insurrection crushed by Bonaparte in Paris

Answer 47

October 5, 1795

Question 48

First campaign in Italy

Answer 48

1796-1797

Question 49

Countries taking part in the second coalition of 1798

Answer 49

Britain, Russia, Austria (Ottoman Empire, Naples, Sweden)

Question 50

Coup of the 18 Brumaire and Consulate

Answer 50

November 10, 1799