May - October 1789

Question 1

What date was the first session of the estates general held?

Answer 1

5th may 1789

Question 2

What was the estates general?

Answer 2

A rare meeting of all the estates which was put on initially to discuss finance, but then opened up to the other issues of France

Question 3

How many representatives arrived for the estates general?

Answer 3

1200. 600 3rd estate, and 300 1st and 2nd estate

Question 4

How did each estate dress?

Answer 4

Clergy = colourful
Nobility= gold
3rd estate = black

Question 5

What was wrong with the first session of the estates general

Answer 5

The speeches made didn’t settle the concerns of the third estates, there was no reform package as discussed previously and confusion in the third estate

Question 6

Why did the third estate refuse to verify credentials?

Answer 6

They wanted it all to be one body and wanted voting by head

Question 7

What date did the third estate vote to form the National Assembly?

Answer 7

17th June

Question 8

Who was the formation of the National Assembly inspired by?

Answer 8

Abbé sieyes- what is the third estate

Question 9

What date were other estates invited to join the National Assembly

Answer 9

19th June 1789

Question 10

When and how did the kings son, Louis die?

Answer 10

4th June of tuberculosis

Question 11

What date did king Louis arrange a reform program for and what was it called?

Answer 11

23rd June, royal session

Question 12

Where was the royal session set up?

Answer 12

Salon des Menus Plaisirs

Question 13

What date did the National Assembly find their meeting place locked and guarded

Answer 13

20th June

Question 14

What oath was sworn on the 20th June

Answer 14

Tennis court oath

Question 15

When was voting by head permitted?

Answer 15

27th June - but by then it was too late

Question 16

What did members in the royal session do in response to the king not accepting the National Assembly

Answer 16

Refused to leave. Desmoulins stirred fury against the court

Question 17

What date did king Louis start bringing troopers into Paris, and how many initially

Answer 17

26th June, 4800

Question 18

How many mercenaries were in Paris by the 4th July

Answer 18

30,000

Question 19

What did people think in response to the king bring mercenaries into Paris?

Answer 19

There were rumours of plots to destroy the Assembly and destroy grain

Question 20

What date did the king dismiss Necker?

Answer 20

11th July

Question 21

By the 14th of July, bread prices were the highest since what year?

Answer 21

1715

Question 22

What did mobs do on the 12-13th July?

Answer 22

Mobs raid sword smiths, gun shops to arm against royal assault.

Question 23

How many custom ports did mobs destroy during the storming of the bastille?

Answer 23

40 out of 54

Question 24

What happened on the 14th July 1789?

Answer 24

The mobs needed weapons. 8,000 went to les Invalides and got 32,000 muskets. Stormed the bastille to get gunpowder

Question 25

Whose head was put on a pike in the storming of the bastille?

Answer 25

Marquis de launey - the govener

Question 26

Why did the king go back to Paris on the 17th June?

Answer 26

To address Parisians from the hotel de ville. He sported the revolutionary cockade, accepted the National Assembly, Paris commune and the National guard and reinstated Necker

Question 27

How did the great fear start?

Answer 27

Peasants heard what was happening in the capital and thought it meant a better way of life for them. Felt they didn’t have to pay taxes and attacked landlords chateaux. Burnt fences, destroyed terriers and titres de vented et devoirs (records of sales)

Question 28

When was the great fear?

Answer 28

17th July - 3rd august 1789

Question 29

What was the great fear?

Answer 29

Rumours that the nobility was tied to steal grain and attack farming families. So peasants attacked grain convoys

Question 30

How did the National Assembly respond to the great fear?

Answer 30

4th august 1789, ‘abolished’ feudal rights in the August decrees, and… Privileges of the nobility and clergy stripped away - everyone pay the same tax Tithes and fees abolished No more venality

Question 31

What date was the ‘declaration of the rights of man and the citizen’

Answer 31

26th august 1789

Question 32

What did the declaration of right of man focus on?

Answer 32

Enlightened principles - ‘the importance of the nation’

Question 33

How did the king respond to the august decrees and the declaration of rights when it was presented to him?

Answer 33

He refused and said he was in doubt of accepting the National Assembly - he thought they would crumble from the disorder and was told to stand firm by his wife and advisors

Question 34

What fuelled the October days?

Answer 34

A banquet held in September to celebrate the return of the kings flanders regiment, they desecrated the revolutionary tricolore

Question 35

What was a suspenseful veto?

Answer 35

Way to curb the kings power, It delayed legislation but not forbidden entirely

Question 36

What day was the march of the October days and how many people?

Answer 36

5th October, 6-7000 people

Question 37

What did the riots do in the riot of the October days?

Answer 37

Forced the king to accept the august decrees and declaration. More grains for Parisians, forced him to move back to Paris. Guards heads were impales on spikes

Question 38

When was the royal family escorted to Paris and to which palace?

Answer 38

6th October to Tuileries