Origins in french rev dates Flashcards

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1
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Louis and Marrie Antoinette marry

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1770

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2
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Louis XVI becomes king

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1774

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3
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Number of parlements

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13

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4
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Frances population by 1780

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27 million

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5
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Candide

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– Voltaire

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6
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The spirit laws

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Montesquieu

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7
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Du Contract social

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Roussau

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8
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enclopidie

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1751-1772

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9
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Tableau Economique

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1758

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10
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First freemasonry

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1688

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11
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20 Lodges in Paris

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1744

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12
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American revolution

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1776-83

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13
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How much money had been sent out to the Americas by 1777

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5 million livres

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14
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French make an alliance to fight

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1778

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15
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Population in 1700

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21.5 million

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16
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France uses crop rotation fertilisation and cultivation of maize and potatoes

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1730

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17
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French commerce increases 8 fold

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1715-1771

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18
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100km Paris to Toulouse takes (1760)

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15 days

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19
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100km Paris to Toulouse takes (1780)

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8 days

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20
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Industrialization doubles

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1715 – 1771

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21
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Cassie D’Escompte

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Founded in 1776

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22
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% of pop that lives in localities of over 2000

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0.15

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23
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How many variations of weights and measures

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28,000 before 1789

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24
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Paper borrowing scheme instigated by

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John Law

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Poor harvests and disastrous winters
1785-1789
26
Bad hailstorm
July 1788
27
State of French debt in 1715
2 billion livres
28
War of Austrian succession
1740-48
29
Seven years war
1756-63
30
State of French debt in 1764
2.3 billion
31
Treaty of Paris
1783
32
Debt after the American Rev
3.3 billion
33
Turgot
1774-1776
34
Poor harvest
1774
35
Flour wars
1775
36
Six Edicts
1776
37
Six edicts registered by lit de justice
March 1776
38
Turgot resigns
May 1776
39
Necker
1777-81
40
Reduction of tax farmers under Necker
60 to 40
41
Abolished 48 posts of receiver general and replaced with
12 salaried officials
42
First Comte rendu au Roi
1781
43
Surplus the false budget statement said
10 million
44
Carnot
1783-87
45
Government revenue increase between 1777 and 1781
20 million
46
What interest rate did Necker get loans at
6-10%
47
Treasurys position in 1781
160 mil short
48
Treasury po16sition in 1782
295 Mil short
49
Calonne’s loans
16%
50
Consent from PP faulty in
December 1785
51
Calonne reform package
1786
52
Assembly of Notables
Feb-may 1787
53
Calonne go
April1787
54
Louis dismiss notables
May 1787
55
Parliament would not endorse Brienne’s changes
July 1787 (e.g.)
56
Phillip Duc d’orleas – Lit de Justice
November 1787
57
Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom
May 1788
58
May edicts
May 1788
59
Nobles revolt
May-August 1788
60
Day of tiles
June 1788
61
Suspension of payments to royal treasury
July 1788
62
Declared bankruptcy
August 1788
63
Verge of bankruptcy
20 August 1786
64
Necker recalled
25 August 1788
65
Last meeting of the EG
1614
66
Third estate double rep
December 1788
67
Poor harvest
1788
68
Spending how much of money of bread 1788
0.88
69
Revellion rioting
April 1789