FRANCE HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS

'refusal 2 take the oath was the first sign of popular resistance'

Furet

'added religious schism to other causes of political & social unrest'

A Cobban

[IN REGARDS TO PILLINITZ] 'resolved to act promptly... with the forces necessary'

Timothy Tackett

'Executions were necessary to appease the people of Paris'

Georges Danton

[nobles] who have not constantly demonstrated their devotion to the Revolution [to be executed]'

Law of Suspects

Violence was the revolution itself

Schama

Bourgeois bankers 'built their fortunes atop the ruination of others'

Jean Paul Marat

'threat of bankruptcy forced the crown to seek new sources of revenue'

L. Hunt

'[COMPTE RENDU] a piece of disingenuous and self-serving propaganda'

William Doyle

Robespierre at 'no time was he able to present the revolutionary credentials'

Jordan

declared themselves publicly; for or against the new order

Doyle

with the forces necessary to attain the proposed common objective

PILLNITZ

"The Reign of Louis XVI was to [prove a time of difficulty and disruption]" agriculturally and economically

William Doyle

WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE 'reiterating all the unmerited advantages enjoyed by the noble order at the expense of the commoners'

William Doyle

[ASSEMBLY] claiming sovereignty in the name of the new nation

William Doyle

Paris exploded with a mixture of fear and indignation (Necker's dismissal)

William Doyle

The answer to the nation's problems lay in Terror.

William Doyle

organised killings to achieve political ends

Schama

"a return to the provisions of 1791"

McPhee

[LOUIS XVI] abilities limited by his manner of perceiving and apprehending

Abbe de veri 1775