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CRIB SHEET
The French Revolution
[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
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"apres moi, le deluge"
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Madame de Pompadour 1721-64
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Madame du Barry
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Rene Maupeau 1714-1792
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The Seven Years War 1756-63
Louis XVI ruled 1774-1792 (executed 1793)
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Jacques Turgot 1721-1781
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Jacques Necker 1732-1802
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Charles Alexander de Calonne 1732-1802,
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Etienne Charles Lomenie de Brienne 1727-1794
Lead Up to Revolution
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The Fiscal Crisis
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Assembly of Notables 1787
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1788 Coup d'etat of Parlements
Start of the Revolution - 1788-1789
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Cahiers des Doleances
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Abbé Sieyes: What is the Third Estate?
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Estates General - May 5th 1789 at Versailles
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National Assembly - June 17th
Tennis Court Oath - June 20th 1789
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National Assembly takes name National Constituent Assembly - June
27th
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July 1789 - The Great Fear in the countryside
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Fall of the Bastille - July 14th 1789
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August 4th Laws - abolish "feudalism"
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Declaration of the Rights of Man - August 27th 1789
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy July 1790
Reaction to the Revolution
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Edmund Burke: Reflections on the French Revolution 1790
The beginning of modern conservative thought.
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Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man 1791
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Olympe de Gouge: The Rights of Women 1791
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792
Radicalization 1791-1792
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Constitution of 1791
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The Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)
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Parties
The Jacobins, Girondists/Brissotins - Jacque-Pierre Brissot
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The Sans Culottes [those who do not wear "culottes" - ie fashionable
leggings. Modern translation "The K-Mart crowd"]
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WAR - April 20 1792 - war declared on Austria
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August 10th 1792 Attack on Tuileries Palace
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September 1792 [September Massacres]
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The Convention - 1792-95 meets September 21 1792 - France declared a republic.
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