French Revolution
Napoleon
And I Quote:
Enlightenment Thinkers
Potpourri
100
This group of Paris working class citizens banded together and formed the Paris Commune, which was a radical dictatorship of the working class.
Who are the sans-culottes?
100
Napoleon was exiled here in 1814 and escaped from exile the following year.
What was Elba?
100
He said: “L’état, c’est moi.”
Who was Louis XIV?
100
A number of Enlightenment thinkers subscribed to this belief, which held that there was a God, but he was an impersonal and distant divinity, who impassively watched the universe run, in much the same way as a clockmaker would admire his clock.
What is deism?
100
In this form of government sovereignty is embodied in the person of the ruler, who claimed to rule by Divine Right.
What is absolute monarchy or absolutism?
200
Members of the Third Estate refuse to take part in the Estates General and vow to write a new constitution for France during this iconic gathering.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
200
Napoleon’s early leadership in France borrowed titles and encouraged comparison with this ancient state.
What is the Roman Republic?
200
He said: “Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage.”
Who was Immanuel Kant?
200
This German Princess married a stupid and weak Russian tsar, organized a military coup to kill him, and after his death ruled as an Enlightened Despot.
Who was Catherine the Great?
200
The event depicted here:
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
300
Robespierre vastly underestimated the traditional values of this constituency and his revolutionary ideology caused counter revolutionary uprisings in the countryside.
Who were the French peasantry?
300
Napoleon fought hard to occupy this Russian city, but when he arrived he found it empty and burned.
What is a Moscow?
300
He said: “I would rather obey one lion than two hundred rats of my own species.”
Who was Voltaire?
300
This French philosophe edited seventeen volumes of the Encyclopedia: The Rational Dictionary of the Sciences, the Arts, and the Crafts.
Who was Denis Diderot?
300
This is the limitation of government by a legal framework that gives power to a legislative body that checks the power of the monarch.
What is constitutional monarchy or constitutionalism?
400
This important document, informed by Enlightenment ideas, outlined the basic rights of French citizens and emphasized that natural rights were common to all men and not hereditary privileges granted to a smalll elite.
What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
400
Napoleon lost this naval battle against the British when he tried to move his Mediterranean fleet into the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the Battle of Trafalgar?
400
He said: “But now that I wanted to devote myself solely to the search for truth I thought I needed to… Reject as if it were absolutely false everything regarding which I could imagine the least doubt, so as to see whether this left me with anything entirely indubitable to believe.”
Who was René Descartes?
400
This Enlightenment thinker’s contribution to political theory was The Social Contract, which introduced two fundamental concepts - the general will and popular sovereignty.
Who was Jean Jacques Rousseau?
400
Mozart wrote this opera as an Enlightenment allegory featuring The Queen of the Night and the sorcerer Sarastro in a struggle for the queen’s daughter, Pamina.
What is The Magic Flute?
500
Determined to end the repressive Reign of Terror, moderates in the National Assembly banded together and arrested and executed Robespierre in this event.
What was the Thermidorian Reaction?
500
Although many of his early reforms were based in Enlightenment ideals and the importance of merit, ultimately Napoleon was most motivated by this.
What is the desire for power?
500
He said: “So, the great and chief purpose of men’s uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property.”
Who was John Locke?
500
European rulers inspired by enlightenment ideas wrestled with what to do about this feudal institution of oppressive human bondage, often wanting to abolish it, but being unwilling to endure the economic fallout of eliminating it.
What is serfdom?
500
The branch of philosophy that studies how we know. The Enlightenment challenged the medieval consensus around certainty and truth in this branch of philosophy.
What is epistemology?