ROBESPIERRE
What is the Incorruptible?
This group were responsible for overthrowing Robespierre.
Who are the Thermidorians?
DAILY DOUBLE
Insurrections occurred in 1795 predominantly because of the lack of this for the working people.
The Executive Directory was made up of this many people.
What is 5?
Who is Marat?
This public celebration on the 8th June 1794 was Robespierre's attempt at creating a new religion, portraying him as a godlike figure.
What is the Festival of the Supreme Being?
Robespierre's supporters included his brother Augustin, Couthon and this young rebel.
Who is Sanit-Just?
Napoleon Bonaparte used this technique to quell the royalist uprising of October 1795.
What is the 'whiff of grapeshot'?
To be a member of the Council of Ancients, you had to be at least this age.
What is 40?
DAILY DOUBLE
Robespierre did not get to have any last words before his execution, as this happened during his arrest.
What is he was shot in the jaw?
This was a campaign to destroy all vestiges of Jacobinism.
What is the Thermidorian Reaction?
This group of middle class youth and sons of aristocrats dressed lavishly and attacked radical workers, quickly stifling the popular movement.
Who are the muscadins?
The Constitution of Year III (1795) included statements of rights and this important new buzz word which focussed on the good of society as a whole.
What is duties?
'[A central truth] of the French Revolution [was] its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends.'
Who is Simon Schama?
Robespierre and his followers were declared to be this to allow for swift execution.
What is outlaws?
Thermidor is the month of this type of weather.
What is heat?
The National Convention, afraid to use the guillotine, decided on a new punishment for militants, sending them to a military prison on a remote desert island which was referred to as this.
What is the 'dry guillotine'?
This revolutionary word was banned by the new government as it was associated with the sans-culottes and hatred of the rich.
What is fraternity?
"This constitution was a return to the provisions of the Constitution of 1791: France was again to be governed by representative, parliamentary government based on property qualifications and the safeguarding of economic and civil liberties."
Who is Peter McPhee?
Robespierre and his followers were executed on this date, which is 10 Thermidor in the revolutionary calendar.
What is 28th July 1794?
The surviving members of this group were reinstated to the Convention after the fall of Robespierre.
Who are the Girondins?
These two uprisings in April and May 1795 saw thousands of people converge on the Convention but fail due to a lack of leadership.
What are the Germinal and Prairial Uprisings?
The new political team of 1795 differed to previous revolutionary assemblies in this way.
What is bicameral?
'We should be ruled by the best among us.'
Who is Boissy D'Anglas?