A VERY VIOLENT REVOLUTION questions

Who was Marie Antionette’s elder brother?

Joseph II

What did Maria Theresa and her son warn her daughter about?

To live simply and avoid extravagance

Why was Louis XVI a weak king? What was he not accustomed to?

He was weak and indecisive; not accustomed to taking orders

Which principle if the Enlightenment in particular did the representatives want to put into effect?

Equality of all men under the law

What did the French citizens mean by human rights?

equal rights and duties; the people as true rulers

Who forced the king and his family to return to Paris?

market women

Describe the situation in France of 1791, after Prussia and Austria sent troops to France to protect the king.

Frenzy; nobles seen as traitors - imprisoned and murdered

How did fashion change during the French Revolution?

No wigs or breeches; long trousers and red caps

Which was the most radical and violent political fraction during the French Revolution?

The Jacobins

Name the court that was responsible for the execution of so many people.

The Revolutionary Tribunal

Besides Robespierre, name another leader during the Reign of Terror.

Danton

What was Robespierre talking about in his speeches? What was his aim? What should triumph? What should be hated? Among whom should terror be spred?

Virtue; virtue should be triumph; vice should be hated; terror among enemies of Reason

What happened to the Church an the Christian belief during the French revolution?

Christianity abolished; worship of Reason, then the Supreme Being

What were the peasant liberated from?

Feudal serfdom

After the French Revolution, which two European countries also formed republics based on the principle of the revolution.

Belgium and Switzerland