MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK

CRIB SHEET

[Note: Crib Sheets are meant as review aids for a particular period/theme. They are not complete overviews!]

Ancien Regime Figures and Dates

Louis XV ruled 1715-74

• "apres moi, le deluge"
• Madame de Pompadour 1721-64
• Madame du Barry
• Rene Maupeau 1714-1792
• The Seven Years War 1756-63

• Jacques Turgot 1721-1781
• Jacques Necker 1732-1802
• Charles Alexander de Calonne 1732-1802,
• Etienne Charles Lomenie de Brienne 1727-1794

• The Fiscal Crisis
• Assembly of Notables 1787
• 1788 Coup d'etat of Parlements

• Cahiers des Doleances
• Abbé Sieyes: What is the Third Estate?
• Estates General - May 5th 1789 at Versailles
• National Assembly - June 17th

Tennis Court Oath - June 20th 1789
• National Assembly takes name National Constituent Assembly - June 27th
• July 1789 - The Great Fear in the countryside
• Fall of the Bastille - July 14th 1789
• August 4th Laws - abolish "feudalism"
• Declaration of the Rights of Man - August 27th 1789
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy July 1790

• Edmund Burke: Reflections on the French Revolution 1790

The beginning of modern conservative thought.
• Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man 1791
• Olympe de Gouge: The Rights of Women 1791
• Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792

• Constitution of 1791
• The Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)
• Parties

The Jacobins, Girondists/Brissotins - Jacque-Pierre Brissot
• The Sans Culottes [those who do not wear "culottes" - ie fashionable leggings. Modern translation "The K-Mart crowd"]
• WAR - April 20 1792 - war declared on Austria
• August 10th 1792 Attack on Tuileries Palace
• September 1792 [September Massacres]
• The Convention - 1792-95 meets September 21 1792 - France declared a republic.

© 1997, Paul Halsall, halsall@murray.fordham.edu