Thermidorian government Flashcards
(10 cards)
The white terror?
purges and campaigns of which thermadorians/ muscardins took action against former instigators of the terror (sans-culottes and Jacobins)
commitment to external conflict?
victory at fleurs 1794, recapture austrian ndl
success in united Provences, led to Batavian republic
secured all frontiers
rising of germinal?
sans culottes attempted to manipulate weakened govenrment- 10000 invaded and demanded constitution of 1793. arrival of national guard saw them retreat.
rising of prairial?
even larger number of sans culottes, murdered deputy jean betrand feraud, demanded release of Jacobin prisoners , and better food supplies.
rebels failed to disperse, approx 20000 returned the next day.
40000 brought in to disperse the crowd
42 national guards and 6/12 deputies killed who gave into demands
rising of vedemaire?
ROYALIST-a royalist revolt in Paris during the French Revolution. It involved approximately 25,000 Parisians who rose against the newly established Directory government and its anti-royalist policies. Napoleon fired grapeshot into crowd, approx 300 royalists
establishment of the directory?
Directory of 5: chosen from ancients by list from 500, 1 would have to change each year
Council of 500: deputies over 30, proposed legislation but did not vote on it
Council of ancients: 250 married/ widowed men 40+ voted on legislation but did not propose.
=2/3 of places went to existing members of convention, across 4 years, 13 men served as directors.
economic measures?
-initially introduced mandates, led to increased inflation, removed from circulation and only allowed for metal coins
-1795 weights and measures standardised, and good harvests in 96+8 let to reduction in price of grain
-taxation system reorganised by Vincent ram el 1795, new property tax and revived octroits (taxing goods in towns)
-mandats wrote of 2/3 of government debt, its collapse alienated the bourgeoisie
-balabce of payments by 1797/8.
coup of frucitor?
April 1797, royalists did well in elections, increased seats to 182 (more than 1/3) = purged by barres/ rewbell produced evidence that pichergu (pres of 500) had been in contact with emigres. taken down by a joint military force of hoche and Augereau arresting 177 royalist deputies. 53 exiled to French Guyana, 42 opposition newspapers forced to close, 2 new directors chosen
coup of floreal?
after royalist gains mimimised, Jacobins soared ahead, purged 127 deputies from council of 500 before seats could be taken
coup of prairial?
faith in directory at an all time low, a bloodless coup in France that resulted in the ousting of the Directory’s Jacobin faction and the rise of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès as the dominant figure in the government.
