The Revolution, May–End of July 1789

Weeks 11 and 12

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What were written and produced by each of the three estates to show their grievances?
The Cahiers de Doléances
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What economical crisis happened in 1788?
Bad harvest
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what did the bad harvest lead to?
mass food riots
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What happened with textiles in 1789?
textiles production cut by 50%
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When were the Reveillon Riots?
26–29 April 1789
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What caused them?
misinterpretation of a factory worker's words
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how many died?
25
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What did th third estate believe the king and necker would do?
• Believed King Louis and Necker were friends of 3rd estate and would soon help them
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When did the Estates-General meet?
4th May 1789
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how many deputies in the 2nd and 1st estates?
561
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and for third estate?
578
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who was Maximilien Robespierre ?
more typical representative of 3rd estate
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how could the cahiers be described?
as liberal
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what did they condemn?
ancient regime
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how many out of the total clerical deputies wanted change? (fraction)
200/291
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What did they all want for the estates-generals' convening?
regularity
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give 3 examples of change wanted
financial inequality, feudal rights, personal rights
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How did the king's government respond to all of the demands for change?
they had no solution
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what did the king lose?
authority
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what did the third estate declare itself?
the national assembly
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who did they directly challenge with demands for self control?
king
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when was the tennis court oath? (tco)
June 20, 1789
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what did the king agree with necker? (tco)
he needed to hold a royal session with all 3 estates (voting per head) and offer a reform package
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What was the big misunderstanding of french kingly irony?? (tco)
that the king was preparing to use armed force to shut 3rd estate down but really he was in a royal session in their room
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where did the third estate move to?
a big tennis court indoors
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what did they swear to each other?
never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
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why did louis then have a hissy fit?
because he took it personally which was and then sulked with necker
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What was Louis' family's response?
His wife and brother forced him to stay strong.
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What did Louis agree to?
No taxation without consent
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What did Louis abolish?
Direct Orders and Internal customs barriers
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What did he declare about the third estate?
That anything they agreed was void.
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What did he say about all of the estates?
That they should meet in separate assemblies
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Who then joined the third estate? Give numbers.
151 clergy, 47 nobles
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What happened in response?
Demonstrations in Paris
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How did Louis respond to this?
He surrounded the city with 30,000 troops in fear
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What rumours did this spark?
He was going to disperse the assembly with force.
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What time especially were the Parisian people highly charged?
July 1789
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What did continuing rise in prices, lack of employment and presence of the army trigger?
The workers to take to the streets
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Where did bands of men and women go to act on orders?
Palais Royale
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What were revolutionary common people of the lower classes called?
Sans-Culottes
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What did they want?
To remove privileges and force change on the king.
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What did the king do in response?
Remove Necker (he was popular)
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Who did he replace him with?
A conservative finance minister,Joseph Joley de Fleury
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What troops appeared?
German
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What did poorer citizens begin doing?
Arming themselves
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What did they attack?
Food stores and prisons
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What did the royal guards do?
Nothing
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What did this show?
Louis couldn't rely on them.
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Who did this alarm?
Wealthier citizens
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What did they set up?
A commune to run the city and a National Guard
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Who ran the National Guard?
L A F F A Y E T T E
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What were these things' purpose?
To protect them from the poor and the king.
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When was the fall of the Bastille?
14th July 1789
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How many muskets?
28,000
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How many canons?
20
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How much ammunition?
None
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Where did they believe they could find some?
Bastille Prison
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What was the prison a symbol for?
The Ancien Regime
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Who approached?
Crowds and the National Guard
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How many of the commune tried to negotiate?
2
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Why did they claim to storm it?
To save prisoners
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Why is this unlikely?
There were only 7 prisoners
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What did the Royal Troops do?
Watch or join in
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What was the Assembly shown to be?
Saved
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What was it now called?
Constituent Assembly
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When did Louis reinstate Necker?
17th July
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What was Louis wearing?
Revolutionary cockade
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When were orders only obeyed?
After the CA approved it
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What did this mean for Louis?
He'd lost power
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