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The Aftermath Of The Terror Flashcards

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1st measure following the terror (2)

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31 July
Vacancies on CPS + CGS filled by dantonists and ‘the plain’

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2nd measure following the terror (2)

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1 august
Law of 22 Prairial was repealed = many released

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3rd measure following the terror (3)

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10 august
Revolutionary tribunal reorganised
Exile to Guiana in SA rather than guillotine

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4th measure following the terro (3)

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24 august
The law of revolutionary government = complete reorganisation of government and admin away from centralised structure

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The law of revolutionary government what (3++++)

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Revolutionary committees were reduced = one per department = Broke power of sc into sections
Central gov in hands of 16 committees responsible to convention (rev changes of memeber ship) = reduced power of CPS + CGS = CPS powers limited to diplomacy, military ops and war material
New represents en mission dispatched to provinces = ovsee chnages + ensure jacobins removed from positions of authority

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5th measure after terror (3)

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31 august
Power of Paris commune reduced
Completely abolished in 1795

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September measures (4+)

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18 September
Church and state separated
State stopped paying clerical salaries
Ended ‘constitutional church’ - acted as gov branch

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November measures (2)

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12 November
Jacobin club closed down + all affiliated societies disbanded

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December measures (3+)

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24 December
Law of maximum repealed
Public workshops that established as part of terror attempt to help poor = restored to private ownership

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Further measure in 1795 (4+)

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February = toleration for all religion proclaimed (some restrictions on catholic practices)
April = represents en mission abolished
May = revolutionary tribunal abolished
October = law of suspects repealed

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What is white terror

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Name given to a series of purges and campaigns were Thermidorians took action against proponents of the terror

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Who supported the Thermidorians

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Muscadins and jeunesse doree (gilded youth)

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What did muscadins and GY do (6)

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Wore fashionable clothes
Armed with canes and wooden clubs
Attacked SC and jacobins
Felled trees of liberty
Trampled on tricolore cockades
Forced closure of pro jacobin newspapers

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Why and what muscadins (2)

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Means musk perfume
Well off bourgeoisie

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Specific things muscadins did (3)

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Helped in destruction of jacobin clubs
Led campaign to de-martyrise the former popular hero Marat
Helped defend the convention in 1795

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Violent massacre where + when (3)

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Lyons
May 1795
Jacobin prisoner hauled from cells and slaughtered

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Where was threat of stability coming from (3)

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Royalists - wanted to see Catholic Church restored to former self
Returning emigres
Jacobins

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Desire of emigres (2)

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Regain their property
Some wanted restoration of monarchy

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Louis brother (3)

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Encouraged restoration of monarchy in ‘Verona declaration’ of June 1795
Promised to restore French glory
Comte de Provence

20
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Republicans defeats (3+)

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February = treaty of La Jaunaye with royalist rebels in west
April = peace agreed with rebels in Chouans
July = general Hoche defeated a rising in south Brittany = execution of 700 emigres

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How did Thermidorians crush hopes of religious restoration (4)

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Maintained bans on religious dress, symbols, processions and bell ringing despite toleration policy

22
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Catholic Church restricted by thermodorians + failed (2)

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Religious gatherings subject to surveillance of the authorities
Ignored by clergy men = convention reintroduced oath of loyalty in February 1795

23
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Why was royalists weakened

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Thermodorians commitment to halt external conflict

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How did thermodorians halt external conflict (5+)

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June 1794 - Victory at Fleurus = recaptured AN
January 1795 - success against united provinces
April = Prussians left coalition + ceded the Rhine to France
July = Spain peace
Only at war with Britain and Austria = focus on internal issues

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When were paris risings

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1795

26
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Problems that arose from ending maximum law (4)

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Increased printing of assignats
Poor harvest 1794
Freezing winter 94-95
Inflation

27
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Further problems LoM + assignats (4)

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April 1795 - real value of assignat was a tenth of OG value
Forced factories to close
Farmers refused to sell grain
10 May = Bread ration fell to 60g a day

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When was rising of germinal

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1 April 1795

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What - rising of germinal (3)

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10,000 SC invaded convention
Demanded ‘bread and the constitution of 1793’
Demonstrators not armed or organised

30
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Response - rising of germinal (2)

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NG arrived
SC withdrew without resistance + were arrested

31
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Response of convention to rising of germinal (4)

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Placed paris under martial law
Gave city under command of general Pichegru
Arrested agitators
Sped up deportation of former Montagnards

32
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What is martial law (2)

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Ruling through the army
Usually entails suspension of civil liberties and arrest without trial

33
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When was rising of Prairial

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20/21 May

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What did they do - rising of Prairial (3)

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Women and men SC invaded the convention - larger than germinal
Forced way into meeting hall
Murdered a deputy - Jean Bertrand Feraud - paraded his head on a pike

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What did sans culottes want - rising of Prairial (3+)

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Demanded release of jacobin prisoners
Reinstatement of 1793 constitution
New controls on better supply of food in capital - convention agreed to establish a food commission

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Response - rising of Prairial

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Troops and muscadins drove the rebels out

37
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Second day of rising of Prairial (3+)

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20,000 SC + NG put loaded canon on convention
40,000 regular soldiers called in to disperse the crowds
No shots fired, two sides negotiated, petitions presented and SC withdrew

38
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How did convention prevent further trouble (2)

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6000 cross examined
42 NG were executed

39
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When was rising of Vendemiarie

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5 October

40
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Why was vendemiarie rising different

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Royalist rising

41
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Why - vendemiaire (2+)

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Believed the plebiscite held in September to win support for a new non monarchical constitution = rigged
Anger excited = reports Comte d’Atois (royalist) had landed of coast of Vendee

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Who - vendemiaire

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Demonstrations led by muscadins, factory and property owners

43
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Response - vendemiaire (2)

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The convention assembled three battalions = called on unemployed jacobin army officers who had been dismissed

44
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What occurred - vendemiaire (2)

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25000 armed Parisians marched on convention
Napoleon bonarpate permission to take command of republicans 5000-6000 troops

45
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How was it squashed - vendemiaire (4)

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5 October
Armed royalist outnumbered republicans 6 to 1
Bonaparte found 40 cannon which he fired at them
Around 300 Royalist killed

46
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Aftermath of vendemiaire (3)

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Comparatively light
Ten death sentences
Made napoleon a national hero - five months later given command of army of Italy

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