The Lesser of Two Weevils
Foreign war, Federalist Revolts, food shortages and this made up the four major crises confronting the Republic in 1793.
What is the financial crisis?
On this date in January 1793, the former king of France was executed by guillotine.
What is 21 January 1793?
The arrest of deputies from this political faction on 2 June 1793 helped trigger revolts across approximately 60 departments.
Who were the Girondins?
“For four years only the rich have profited from the revolution,” complained this Enragé leader to the Convention in July 1793.
Who is Jacques Roux?
Authentic versions of this blue cheese must traditionally mature in the natural limestone caves beneath the Combalou plateau in southern France.
What is Roquefort?
Established on 6 April 1793, this body increasingly directed the war effort and defended the Republic against external enemies.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
In the Convention’s final vote on Louis XVI, this punishment defeated its opponents by 387 votes to 334.
What is execution?
During the Federalist Revolts, this port went furthest by surrendering its harbour and fleet to the British.
What is Toulon?
This clergyman described Louis XVI’s final moments as “the most agonizing moment of this whole terrible morning.”
Who is Edgeworth?
This condiment du Provençal is made primarily from black olives, capers and anchovies, and is commonly served on bread or with vegetables.
What is tapenade?
While the Committee of Public Safety focused heavily on external threats, this committee pursued suspects, non-juring priests, hoarders and other alleged internal enemies.
What is the Committee of General Security?
Following Louis XVI’s death, France expanded its war by declaring war on Britain, Spain and this neighbouring republic.
What is the Dutch Republic?
After overthrowing its Jacobin council, this city was eventually surrounded, starved and subjected to brutal revolutionary repression.
What is Lyons?
In a letter to his constituents, this revolutionary claimed Louis XVI’s execution had “imprinted a grand character on the National Convention.”
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This pastry takes its name from the French word for “lightning” and is traditionally filled with cream and topped with icing.
What is an éclair?
Passed on 29 September 1793, this measure attempted to answer sans-culotte and Enragé demands by regulating the prices of goods and labour.
What is the Law of the Maximum?
France’s enemies including Austria, Prussia, Britain, Spain and the Dutch Republic became collectively known by this name.
What is the First Coalition?
This radical faction, associated with Hébert and Chaumette, championed aggressive dechristianisation and the Cult of Reason.
Who were the Hébertists?
“Citizens, the people have renounced the errors of former times; they have torn away the veil of superstition,” declared this bishop while renouncing his episcopate in November 1793.
Who is Bishop Gobel?
This chef, often called the father of modern French cuisine, codified the five “mother sauces” and helped professionalise the brigade system in restaurant kitchens.
Who is Auguste Escoffier?
The surrender of Toulon to Britain helped produce this September 1793 declaration, signalling that emergency violence was becoming an official instrument of revolutionary government.
What is “Terror be the order of the day”?
After the king’s execution, this revolutionary declared: “We hurl at their feet, as a gage of battle, the French King’s head.”
Who is Danton?
Despite their reputation for radicalism, the sans-culottes rejected equality of property and were therefore explicitly described in the deck as NOT belonging to this ideology.
What is socialism?
“Where there are no laws, there is no longer a patrie,” declared this revolutionary, quoted in the deck’s discussion of sans-culotte political ideology.
Who is Saint-Just?
Contrary to an extremely persistent culinary legend, Marie Antoinette did not introduce this crescent-shaped Viennese pastry to France when she arrived from Austria.
What is the croissant?