The Roman Connection
This semi-mythical individual's suicide inspired the overthrow of the original Roman kings.
Who is Lucretia
This was name given to the circulation of rumors and paranoia throughout rural France following the Bastille's fall...the stories concerned noble plots and vengeance against the peasants and the Revolution...
What is the Great Fear
Marie Antoinette was originally from this European nation
What is Austria
The decades which PRECEDED the French Revolution were dominated by a "Gentlemen" style warfare sometimes called "The Age of ________ Warfare"
Limited or Linear
Rousseau considered this force the ultimate authority within a "Social Contract"
What is the General Will
Following his army's defeat and Julius Caesar's offer of clemency, Cato the Younger gained republican immortality through this (nearly unbelievable) story of suicide
He fell on his sword, and after being bandaged up by servant, tore open the wound and pulled out his own innards.
After the Fall of the Bastille, Lafayette gave THIS GIFT to THIS famous recipient in memory of the event and their own friendship.
What is the Keys of the Bastille and George Washington
It was the name of the palace in which the Royal Family was forced to live after their forcible removal from Versailles to Paris.
What is the Tuileries
What is Verdun
These were the sophisticated indoor spaces where philosophes and intellectuals of the Enlightenment met
What were the Salons
Following the defeat of his cousins, the last surviving Roman Horatii brother shocked his fellow countrymen through this excessive act of patriot zeal
He killed his sister for weeping for Rome's slain enemy - whom she had been engaged to.
This is the person(s) whom Louis and his family sought refuge with after the storming of the Tuileries Palace by forces of the Paris Commune in August, 1792.
What is the National Assembly
This concept of "whole-national-population" participation in war came into being during the crisis years 1792-1793, and was the most significant military change of the period.
What is the Levee en masse
John Locke believed the Social Contract existed to defend these THREE things:
What is Life, Liberty and Property
Brutus, founder of the Roman Republic and its first consul, shockingly executed his own son for THIS reason around 508 BC
Involvement in a conspiracy to bring back the last Roman king, Tarquin the Proud
When the commander of the Bastille threatened in desperation to do THIS, even his own troops turned on him which allowed the fortress to be captured.
What is to detonate all the gunpowder in the Bastille and destroy the surrounding neighborhood
Is it a revolt? No, sire, it is a Revolution!
This small but pivotal battle on September 20, 1792 saved Paris and gave the National Assembly the courage to declare the abolition of the monarchy and establishment of a republic within 48 hours of the news...
What is Valmy?
These are TWO of the several adjectives that Hobbes used to describe life in the State of Nature
What is Short, Nasty, Brutish, Solitary and Poor
This semi-mythical early Roman dictator has ever-after served as the model for the voluntary laying down of one's power.
Who was Cincinnatus
This particularly unpopular decision by Louis XVI touched off the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789
What is the firing of Minister Necker
Louis and his family attempted unsuccessfully to flee the country (The Flight to Varennes) after they were prevented from briefly leaving Paris even for THIS reason in Spring, 1791.
To attend Easter Mass
These 2 Revolutionary generals defected to the Austrians, respectively, in 1792 and 1793
Who are Lafayette and Dumuorriez
Rousseau's "The Social Contract" opened with this famous phrase that began with "Man is..."
"...born free but is everywhere in chains"