AP Euro French Rev

Monarchy’s greatest problem in 1789?

Lacked adequate revenue

Reasons for French debt

Due to foreign wars and the unjust tax system that exempted the rich

What were the provincial parlements

13 local French courts that would sign off on laws from the king

Who controlled the provincial parlements

Controlled by the nobles and were made up of the nobility of the robe

What was the other name for the nobility of the robe

Noblesse de robe

Charles de Calonne’s proposals

Encourage internal trade, lower gabelle taxes, and transfer peasent services to money payments

Republic of Virtue

Ideal of Robespierre in which people prioritizes the good of the republic over own self

Dechristianization

Movement in which France want to become less Christian. They changed the calendar to start on the first day of the Revolution and replaced the month names. They also changed Notre Dame to a temple of reason.

Thermidorian Reaction

Ended the terror and instated a new regime. People who fed and motivated the terror were excecuted in the “white terror”. Robespierre is executed

Goals of the Sans-culotte

Wanted economic security, political power, and price controls. Were excluded due to being too radical.

Grachus Babeuf

Radical revolutionary who believed in redistribution of wealth and called for more radical democracy. Was executed