The Spread Of The Terror

Question 1

How many victims were there in the Terror between 1792 and 1794?

Answer 1

40000

Question 2

How many victims of the Terror were guillotined?

Answer 2

17,000

Question 3

Between September and December 1793, how many cases were brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal?

Answer 3

500,000

Question 4

What percentage of the executions between September and December 1793 were the nobility and the percentage of clergy too?

Answer 4

Nobility = 9%
Clergy = 7%

Question 5

When was Marie Antoinette tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal? And what was she the first of?

Answer 5

14th October 1793, she was the first of the show trial to satisfy sans-culottes

Question 6

When was Marie Antoinette guillotined?

Answer 6

16th October 1793

Question 7

How many Girondin ministers were tried on the 24th October 1793? And when were they guillotined?

Answer 7

21, they were guillotined on the 31st October 1793

Question 8

When was the duc d’Orleans tried?

Answer 8

6th November 1793

Question 9

When did Saint-Just make a speech for the CPS saying, “the provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace”?

Answer 9

10th October 1793

Question 10

What did the campaign involve from the 10th October 1793?

Answer 10

Comites de surveillance monitoring residents, armees revolutionaries crack counter-revolutionary activity, spies from the CGS and representants-en-mission pursue revolutionary justice

Question 11

How many were guillotined in the Vendee?

Answer 11

7873

Question 12

How many were drowned in the Vendee between November 1793 and January 1794?

Answer 12

2000

Question 13

Who directed the suppression of Toulon?

Answer 13

Barras and Freron

Question 14

By the end of 1794, how many had been executed in Lyons?

Answer 14

2000

Question 15

What did Hebert and Chaumette encourage the sans-culottes to do?

Answer 15

Close churches and destroy religious signs.

Question 16

When did the Paris Commune make Dechristianisation an official policy?

Answer 16

October 1793

Question 17

When was there an order to close all remaining churches?

Answer 17

November 1793

Question 18

What did the Notre Dame Cathedral get transformed into in November 1793?

Answer 18

The ‘Temple of Reason’

Question 19

What was organised by the Paris Commune in November 1793?

Answer 19

A ‘Festival of Reason’

Question 20

What happened due to the decree on the ‘liberty of cults’?

Answer 20

Religious toleration was reaffirmed

Question 21

When did the Law of 14 Frimaire II become established?

Answer 21

4th December 1793

Question 22

What were departements now responsible for, due to the Law of Frimaire II?

Answer 22

Collection of taxes and provisions of public works

Question 23

What what were closed and disbanded due to the Law of Frimaire II?

Answer 23

Armees revolutionaries in March 1794 and popular societies

Question 24

How did the Law of Frimaire II make the CPS supreme?

Answer 24

A highly centralised structure of government was enforced

Question 25

When were the 2 laws of Ventôse passed?

Answer 25

January and March 1794

Question 26

What did the 2 laws of Ventôse mean for patriots?

Answer 26

Land from counter-revolutionaries was given a share of their property

Question 27

What did Hebert claim Robespierre was setting up in the first months of 1794?

Answer 27

A dictatorship

Question 28

Who were some individuals that were ‘Indulgents’?

Answer 28

Danton and Desmoulins

Question 29

What did Robespierre argue was needed to achieve a ‘Republic of Virtue’?

Answer 29

Self-sacrifice

Question 30

Which groups of people did Saint-Just denounce in March 1794 to the Convention?

Answer 30

Hebertists and Indulgents

Question 31

When was Hebert executed?

Answer 31

24th March 1794

Question 32

When were Danton and Desmoulins guillotined?

Answer 32

5th April 1794

Question 33

What started to break down due to the criticism of the ‘triumvirate’ of the CPS?

Answer 33

The power of the sans-culottes, Paris Commune and sectional societies

Question 34

How many were guillotined between March and June 1794?

Answer 34

1000

Question 35

What did Robespierre introduce on the Revolutionary Calendar to establish central control?

Answer 35

National days

Question 36

When did the decree happen where the French people recognised the existence of the Supreme Being?

Answer 36

7th May 1794

Question 37

When did the new scheme, the Festival of the Supreme Being, get designed?

Answer 37

8th June 1794

Question 38

Who became the President of the Convention due to the Festival of the Supreme Being?

Answer 38

Robespierre

Question 39

What did the Law of 22 Prairial do to intensify the Terror?

Answer 39

Simplify the judicial process by making convictions easier

Question 40

When did the Law of 22 Prairial get established?

Answer 40

10th June 1794

Question 41

What became the only 2 possible verdicts for those tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal due to the Law of 22 Prairial?

Answer 41

Acquittal and death

Question 42

After the Law of 22 Prairial, the accused were still allowed witnesses and defences. True or false.

Answer 42

False

Question 43

Between the Law of 22 Prairial and the 26th July (8 Thermidor) how many death sentences were pronounced? And how many were acquitted?

Answer 43

1284, of which 278 were acquitted

Question 44

What was the time between the Law of 22 Prairial and 8 Thermidor called?

Answer 44

The ‘Great Terror’

Question 45

What were the percentages of the victims of the Great Terror? (For nobles, clergy and bourgeoisie)

Answer 45

``` Nobles = 35% Clergy = 25% Bourgeoisie = 40% ```

Question 46

What steps were taken by Robespierre on 5 Thermidor (23rd July 1794)?

Answer 46

Force back rising wages and set a maximum wage

Question 47

Which 2 individuals set up a police network to hunt for counter-revolutionaries to infringe CGS powers?

Answer 47

Robespierre and Saint-Just

Question 48

Why was local government breaking down?

Answer 48

An overload of work and atmosphere of fear

Question 49

Why were Catholic priests and atheists angered?

Answer 49

The cult of the Supreme Being

Question 50

Why were there growing suspicions of Robespierre during mid-1794?

Answer 50

His absence from the CPS

Question 51

When did Robespierre reappear before the National Convention to give his last speech?

Answer 51

8 Thermidor (26th July 1794)

Question 52

What did Robespierre on 8 Thermidor accuse different committees, including the CGS, of doing?

Answer 52

Conspiring against ‘public liberty’

Question 53

When did Saint-Just arrive at the Convention to deliver a speech?

Answer 53

9 Thermidor (27th July 1794)

Question 54

Who did Commune forces liberate?

Answer 54

Robespierre and the other deputies

Question 55

Who attempted to retake Robespierre from Commune forces?

Answer 55

The National Convention

Question 56

Who was found guilty and guillotined on 10 Thermidor (28th July 1794)? How many associates also faced the same fate as this individual?

Answer 56

Robespierre and 22 associates of his

Question 57

How many out of the 95 Commune members lost their lives by 30th July 1794?

Answer 57

87