French Revolution
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French Revolution Dates
1789 - 1799
Reign of Terror Dates
1793-1794
Reign of Terror Deaths
17,000 official executions, 25-40,000 total deaths
Reign of Terror Leader
Maximilien Robespierre
% of taxes paid by Third Estate
97%
Palace of Versailles size
2000 acres
Seven years war dates and cost
1756-1763, cost 1.1 billion livres
American Revolution dates and cost
1775-1783, cost 1.2 billion livres
% of Peasents living below subsistence line
90%
Louis XIV Absolutism quote
“I am the state”
Emergence of absolutism centuries
16th-17th centuries
Voltaire quote
“the best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination”
Rousseau quote
“the legislative power belongs to the people”
Governor Morris to George Washington, 1789
“He is a well meaning man, but extremely weak”
Financial ministers that proposed reforms
Turgot, Necker, Callone
Nobles vote against paying taxes
1787
Families % spent on food
90%
Year of big storm
1788
Rise of the cost of bread %
67%
Previous calling of the Estates General
1614
New calling of the Estates General
May 5 1789
Louis concession of popular vote
June 23 1789
Storming of the Bastille
July 14 1789
Leftist historian
George Rude
Right wing historian
Simon Schama