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58 Cards in this Set
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George Rudé - [the National Assembly's actions] made it...
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impossible to arrest the course of the Revolution
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William Doyle - It was resistance...
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that made the revolution become violent
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Albert Soboul - The Enlightenment...
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undermined the ideological foundations of the established order
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Henri Lefebvre - The ultimate...
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cause of the revolution was the rise of the Bourgeois
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Simon Schama - It was in the Church...
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more than any other group in France, that the separation between rich and poor was most bitterly articulated
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William Doyle - [the Storming of...
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the Bastille] was the climax of the popular movement
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Francois Furet - The August...
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Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation
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Peter McPhee - The Revolution of the Bourgeois deputies...
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had only been secured by the active intervention of the people of Paris
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Simon Schama - It was the domestic...
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perception of financial problems, not their reality that propelled successive French governments from anxiety to alarm to outright panic
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François Furet - 'What Is The Third Estate?' offers....
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us the French Revolution's biggest secret, which will form its deepest motivating force - hatred of the nobility
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William Doyle - [The Founding of the National Assembly] was the founding...
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act of the French Revolution. If the nation was sovereign, the king no longer was
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Jean Joseph Mounier - Never to separate...
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and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the realm is established and fixed upon solid foundations
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Jean Sylvain Bailly - The assembled...
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nation cannot take orders
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William Doyle - The people of Paris...
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[were] convinced that they alone had saved the National Assembly
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Peter McPhee - Like the menu...
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people of Paris, peasants adopted the language of bourgeois revolt to their own ends
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Donald Sutherland - [The August Decrees] was...
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a way of escaping a parliamentary impasse, as well as a device to appease the peasantry
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Simon Schama - It was not because Calonne had shocked
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the Notables with his announcement of a new fiscal and political world; it was either because he had not gone far enough or because they disliked the operational methods build into the program
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Francois Furet - By opposing a single and...
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proportional tax, they were protecting their own interests and at the same time gratifying public opinion
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William Doyle - The French King's government...
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could not command the confidence of its most eminent subjects.
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Peter McPhee - The calling of the Estates-General...
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facilitated the expression of tensions at every level of French society, and revealed social divisions which challenged the idea of a society of orders
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Albert Soboul - The bourgeoisie, the leading element of the Third Estate...
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now took over. Its aim was revolutionary... Before long, however, it was carried forward by the pressure of the masses, the real motive force behind the revolution.
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Peter McPhee - Louis' acquiescence...
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in the nobility's demand for voting to be in three separate orders galvanized the outrage of the bourgeois deputies
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William Doyle - [Tennis Court Oath] was...
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one more assertion that they were subject to no other power in France
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William Doyle - The King...
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had thrown away his authority almost as soon as he had tried to reassert it
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Peter McPhee - The signal...
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for popular action was the dismissal of Necker
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Francois Furet - [Dismissal of Necker was]...
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interpreted as a double unlucky omen: bankruptcy and counter-revolution
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William Doyle - Hunger, hope...
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and fear were the main ingredients of the rural crisis of 1789
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Peter McPhee - As the prices rose...
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during the years of shortage, so did the tension between urban populations dependent on cheap and plentiful bread and the poorer sections of the rural community
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Rousseau- You forget that...
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the fruits belong to all and that the land belong to no one.
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Montesquieu- Republics end ...
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through luxury; monarchies through poverty
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Montesquieu- Liberty is...
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the right to do what ever the law permits.
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Montesquieu- There is no...
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greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
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Voltaire- Magistrates , labours and priests ...
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should bear the expenses of the state equally because they belong to the state equally.
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Montesquieu on power being held by one man- A man...
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is a creature whose five senses are always telling him that he is everything and that other men are nothing.
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Rousseau- The social contract is a...
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contract that allows liberty and equality because under it no individual can retain any rights that are not possessed equally by all other individuals without the contract thereby violated.
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Louis XIV- First feelings...
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are always the most natural.
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Louis XVI- I...
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am the state.
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Louis XVI- It is legal...
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because I wish it.
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Turgot on administration problems of France- It is a...
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society composed of badly-ordered ranks... where hardly anyone troubles to fulfil his duties.
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Lefebvre- At Versailles...
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Louis XIV was a laughing stock... Among the short term causes of the revolution, the character of the king must be included.
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Louis St Just- No freedom...
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for the enemies of freedom.
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Robespierre- Let us not be afraid of revolution;...
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we are farther from liberty, than ever... Marart calling for further revolution to a republic, 1792.
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Robespierre- Man is born for...
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happiness and for liberty, and everywhere he is a slave and unhappy.
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Abbe Sieyes- What is the third estate?...
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everything!
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen- "Men are born free...
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and equal in rights.
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Lafayette- Humanity has won it's battle...
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Liberty now has a country.
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Lafayette- True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people...
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There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
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Abbe Sieyes- They want to be free...
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and they don't know how to be just.
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Brunswick Manifesto 1792- The city of Paris
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shall be required to submit at once to King Louis XVI.
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Creation of the committee of public safety- The committee shall be responsible for
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supervising and accelerating the work of administration of government.
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Law of suspects 1793- The following are deemed suspected persons:...
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those who by their conduct, associations, talk or writings have shown themselves enemies of liberty.
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Robespierre- It is with regret that...
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I pronounce that fatal truth: Louis must die that the country may live.
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Robespierre- Terror is nothing other than
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justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
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Robespierre- The government in a revolution...
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is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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Robespierre- The secret of freedom...
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lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
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Louis St Just- One cannot reign incorrectly...
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every king is a rebel and a conspirator.
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Louis St Just- One does not put a king on trial...
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One kills him
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Louis St Just- The vessel of the revolution...
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can arrive at a good port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.
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