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16 Cards in this Set
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Lafyette |
-Came from aristocratic background -Supported the revolution in its moderate stages -Popular in America and in France -Inspired by George Washington -Bring USA and France together |
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Declaration of the Rights of Man |
-Pseudo religion -Liberating the people |
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Jean-Paul Marat |
-Opposite of Lafyette -Was a representative of the radical faction of the revolution in the Jacobins -Swiss doctor -Said that all this is the work of the middle class -Thought the poor would rise up against the bourgeoise -Totalitarian vision |
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
-Divide between radicals and non-radicals in revolution -1790 -Restructuring the Catholic Church in harmony with Revolutionary ideas -Forced clergy to comply with the revolution or be punished/expelled -Taking of Church lands
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Thomas Paine |
-Demoralized in France because he was an atheist -Revolutionary 'other' -Thoughts contributed to the Declarations of the rights of man -Thought believing in god distracted from reason
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Danton |
-Radical revolutionary -Charismatic crowd manipulator -Rose citizen army when France was threatened by other Euroepan powers -Executed -Opposed to capital punishment |
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Robespierre |
-Leading radical revolutionary -Executed -believer in a need for a 'supreme being' -Puritanical, believed that thousands could be killed to serve the revolution -Had Danton executed |
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Tallyrand |
-Thought france would remain unified nation -Dramatic loss and respect for God and King |
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Chateaubriand |
-Inspired by the American Revolution -Recorded and observed the happenings -Worried about the radical terms of revolution |
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Saint-Juste |
-Thought we should go back to the ideas of the Romans -Radical right-hand man to Robespierre -Executed -Supported the execution of the King
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Reign of Terror |
-Mainly under the rule of Robespierre -Becomes hegemonic in September 1792 -Revolutionary Calendar |
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Joseph Fouché |
-Traveled France attacking religion -Transformed religious symbols to revolutionary symbols -Killed 850 priests |
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September Massacres of 1792 |
-4 days massacred priests, nuns, criminals etc -Priests who refused to sign in support of the constitution were killed -revolution spinning out of control |
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Jacobins |
-Most radical of revolutionaries -Became totalitarian from their conquering of religion -Terror in the sight of the population |
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Louis XVI |
-Executed for symbolic reasons -Was not a bad person but his existence was detrimental to the revolution -Represent killing god -His death was a sobering thing |
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Rebellion in Vendee |
-West of France -People who resented the revolution rose up -Peasants and aristocrats against revolutionary soldiers |
