Revolts & Counterrevolution
The revolution in this Caribbean colony was the first directly inspired by the French Revolution
Haiti
gunshot wound, jaw
In the Concordat of 1801, this man finally reconciled the Catholic Church with France.
Napoleon
The "Directory" period is named after the Directorate, or Council of 5 which served as the ____________ branch of the new government.
Executive
This summer 1791 massacre in Paris would eventually lead to the discrediting of Lafayette and execution of Bailly.
Champ de Mars
Following their release by Parisian jails on 9 Thermidor, Robespierre, Couthon and St. Juste rallied their supporters at the _______________ in Paris in an unsuccessful attempt to reestablish Jacobin power.
Hotel de Ville
Robespierre, in particular, constantly railed against this most famous "conspiracy theory" during the Terror; Palmer called it a "mass of intrigue that is almost beyond the power of historians to unravel."
The Foreign Plot
The counterrevolution in ___________ was largely associated with Revolutionary attacks on the Church
the Vendee
The Constitution of 1795, which established the Directory, created a bicameral legislature. The lower house ___________ laws and the upper house __________ them.
wrote / approved
When the crowds demanded Louis XVI appear on the balcony, during the October 5-6 Womens March to Versailles, THIS MAN escorted him.
Lafayette
The Committee of Public Safety exploited this leftist radical's attempt to rally the sans-culottes to his cause as an excuse to have him arrested in spring 1794
Hebert
The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
The Festival of the Supreme Being is the ideal example of the _____________ beliefs held by many 18th century Enlightenment thinkers.
Deist
Napoleon ended the Directory period with the Coup of 18 __________ in 1799.
Brumaire
Olympe de Gouges was famous for writing a _____________________ for women. But, due to her Girondin leanings, she was guillotined during the Terror.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The radical proto-communist Babouf was executed in 1797 following his involvement in the so-called "Conspiracy of ___________ "
Equals
Hondschoote and Wattignies were important because they represented the beginning of the _____________ .
French victory over the enemies of the First Coalition
The loud and ongoing calls for Dechristianization by the Parisian radical _____________ was one of the reasons that Robespierre and his allies on the Committee of Public Safety had arrested him in April 1794.
Hebert
The formal name of the government which followed the Directory was the ________ .
Consulate.
At the Tennis Court Oath, the deputies swore to never disband until _______________________ .
France received a Constitution
This last attempt by radical Jacobins and sans-culottes to reclaim power in Paris, during May 1795, represented the last significant popular revolt during the Revolution
The Insurrection of 1 Prairial
This medieval abbey - once the largest church in all Christendom and considered by some the site where Western Civilization was reborn in the 9th century - was largely demolished during the Revolution. Only one tower still remains in its remnant.
Cluny
Many French churches - Notre Dame Cathedral most prominently - were converted into ____________ during the Revolution.
Temples of Reason
40, married or widowed
This young woman from Caen was the murderer of Marat.
Charlotte Corday