France quotes

the one with the Enlightenment

“The Enlightenment undermined the ideological foundations of the existing order”- Soboul

the one with the force of bayonets

“We are here by the will of the people, and we will only be dispersed by the force of bayonets” -Mirabeau

the one with the assembled nation

“the assembled nation cannot receive any order”- Bailly

the one about the declaration of the national assembly

“it was the founding act of the French Revolution. If the Nation was sovereign, the king no longer was”- Doyle

the one where the war revitalised

“the war revitalized the popular revolution, The political and social demands of the working people became more insistent and harder to deny once all men were called to volunteer to fight at a time of worsening inflation” - McPhee

the one with the great fear

“The Great Fear allowed the peasants to realise their strength”- Lefebvre

the one about the storming of the bastille

“Climax of the popular movement”- Doyle

the one with the Terror

“the Terror was gradually established as a repressive system”- Furet

the one about the harvests

“The harvests were catastrophic”- Furet

the one about Jacobin policy

“Jacobin policy and popular action coincided”- Lefebvre

the one with the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

“The Civil Constitution of the Clergy effectively destroyed the revolutionary consensus that had existed”- Mercier

the one about what the terror did

“destroying many of the political and civil liberties the revolution had earlier created”- Adcock

the one about violence

“violence was the motor of the revolution”- Schama