Causes of French revolution Terror 1793
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- Created on: 11-05-16 14:35
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- Causes of Terror 1793
- Federal revolt
- Movement: anti-jac; anti- paris; anti-centralism
- 60 deputies revolted
- serious conflicts:
- Marseille
- Lyon
- 2 months: gave in Oct 1793
- renamed 'town without a name'
- ville sans nome
- Toulon
- Handed over to Br...retaken Dec 1793
- Bordeaux
- serious conflicts:
- Convention losing control, therefore used terror. (destroy enemy within)
- Economic
- War increased prices
- convetion printed more assignats to pay for it
- inflation
- convetion printed more assignats to pay for it
- Peasants reluctant to sell grain
- hoarding
- Led to emergency measures: -Army rev -Max. price -Death penalty
- hoarding
- Vendee (caused by economic factors)
- Convention face journees
- Sept 4-5 1793
- "terror is order of day"
- convention forced to pass it by Sans-c
- "terror is order of day"
- Sans-c/ mobs powerbase=paris commune + hotel de ville
- Sept 4-5 1793
- Convention face journees
- War increased prices
- Role of Robespierre + Jacobins
- dominant figure on CPS
- believed ends justified means... hence despotism of liberty.
- Cult of supreme being: Rob, Dictator?
- believed ends justified means... hence despotism of liberty.
- Responded to Sans-c with law of suspects
- Gave CPS unlimited powers of arrest (rev. tribunals)
- GREAT TERROR
- Introduced Law of Frumaire (Dec 93)
- increased CPS power
- Used to remove rival factions
- (april) Danton +Desmoulins
- Hebert
- centralisationof terror... Rev tribunal was only in Parris
- Used to remove rival factions
- (april) Danton +Desmoulins
- Hebert
- Used to remove rival factions
- Cult of supreme being: Rob, Dictator?
- Introduced Law of Frumaire (Dec 93)
- dominant figure on CPS
- War (Main cause)
- VS Aus/ Prussia/ GB
- Went badly 1793
- Lafayette/ Dumourez got blamed... Girodins got blamed --> Fell June 1793..
- Replaced by more radical Jacobins (ie. Robespierre)
- In turn, Made terror more likely
- Replaced by more radical Jacobins (ie. Robespierre)
- Atmosphere of panic: esp. in Paris.
- Threat of defeat used to justify terror.
- "Terror is the order of day
- Despotism of Liberty --> CPS/ Law of suspects (Sept 1793)
- "Terror is the order of day
- Threat of defeat used to justify terror.
- Caused strain on economy 1793
- levee en masse
- Paris short of food. Sans-C not happy
- Maximum set up: upset peasants: led to hoarding.
- enforced by Armee revolt- seize grain...led to federal revolt.
- Maximum set up: upset peasants: led to hoarding.
- Paris short of food. Sans-C not happy
- levee en masse
- Lafayette/ Dumourez got blamed... Girodins got blamed --> Fell June 1793..
- Vendee
- Vendee was first use of terror (Feb 1793)
- What was it?
- Hoarders/ refactory priests hiding there
- Rep on mission and terror needed to root them out!
- first internal threat to revolution
- Rep on mission and terror needed to root them out!
- 200k died. 52% of population
- Hoarders/ refactory priests hiding there
- first internal threat to revolution
- took 30k away from war front... caused problems with war and added to need of terror.
- Federal revolt
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