Rural Revolts 1789

Question 1

The Great Fear

Answer 1

July - August 1789

Question 2

Reasons for the Great Fear (4)

Answer 2

1) Peasants feared they would be attacked by Brigands and foreign mercenaries
2) The peasants had already been revolting since around March
3) They wanted to express their anger from existing grievances
4) Peasants destroyed Manorial Rolls, which contained documented the taxes and rents peasants were required to pay

Question 3

What were the nobles leaving France called?

Answer 3

émigrés

Question 4

Emigres impact on the revolution

Answer 4

1) Over 100,000 nobles left France
2) They became a figure of fear as peasants believed they would come back with mercenaries and attack them
3) They were thought to have collaborated with foreign powers to plot counter-revolution

Question 5

Night of Patriotic Delirium

Answer 5

4 August 1789

Question 6

Significance of the night of 4 August

Answer 6

1) Deputies of the First and Second estates renounced many of their traditional privileges