French Revolution

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 (Causes)

George Rude

Right wing historian (causes)

Simon Schama

Marxist historian (consequences)

Albert Soboul

Revisionist historian (consequences)

Francois Furet

Contribution to modern capitalism - Soboul

“The French Revolution marked a decisive stage in the new bourgeoi and capitalist society”

Dates of July Revolution and European uprisings

1830 and 1848

Laws that abolished feudalism

August Decrees of 1789

Inflation of assignats

1 billion livres of confiscated church land, 40 billion livres of assignats issued

Napoleonic coup + date

Coup of 18 Brumaire, 9 Nov 1799

Name of Napoleonic govt

The French Consulate

Reign of Terror law quote

“conduct, associations, comments, or writings”

National Assembly’s constitution

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen