How serious for the survival of the monarchy was Louis XVI’s use of the Royal Veto? (20 marks)

First paragraph

Yes - royal veto was main reason

What laws did Louis veto?

Deportation of refractory priests

Replacement of NG with 20,000 Federes

Deportation of priests denounced by 20 citizens

Replaced girondin ministers who protested against this

What did Louis’ use of veto lead to?

Growth of republicanism

Saw Louis as undermining the revolution

Louis wasn’t trying to protect Paris - they felt unsafe

What did the Sans Culottes shout when they Stormed the Tuileries?

‘Down with the veto! Call back the patriot ministers’

What did Louis’ royal vetoes lead to?

Events on 9th and 10th of August

Why could it not be the vetoes?

Sans-Culottes stormed the Tuileries before yet did not overthrow him due to him remaining calm wearing a bonnet rouge and drinking to the health of the nation

What 2 other paragraphs are there besides the veto?

Fear

Influence

What points are used in the fear paragraph?

Military failures - They were terrified of the Austrians and Prussian’s

Economic failures - they were terrified of poverty

Evidence of fear

Brunswick Manifesto

Army retreated on

160km in Lille

Army was dishevelled

They were unsafe!

Sugar went from 22sous/lb to 3.4 liveries/lb which was x 14

Carts and horses were used for military uses which drove up grain prices and led to sans-Culotres attacking hoarders

2 million people still relied on begging in 1792

By March 1793, French money once worth British £100 would buy only £50 worth of goods in Paris

Weakness of fear paragraph

They only fear being unsafe due to Louis’ veto of the replacement of NG with Federes

Plus he was named part of the Austrian Committee

He was allowing them to fear

Sans-Culottes point

Became more violent and brutal in summer of 1792

Weakness of sans-culottes

Only acted this way due to fear

Info about the Storming of Tuileries 1

20th June

Anniversary of TCO and FTV

By 8000 Sans-Culottes and NG

Information about the Storming of the Tuileries 2

20,000 men

“Down with the veto! Call back the patriot ministers. Tremble tyrants! The Sans-Culotres are here!”

evidence of sans culottes

Storming of the Tuileries 1 and 2

Armed with pikes due to Carnot’s proposal

Events of 9th and 10th

600 Swiss, 300 Parisians and 90 Federes dead

Bloodiest journee yet

Led to LA being replaced with NC using elections