NATIONAL CONVENTION
Who are the Mountain (Montagnards)?
This commander of the Austrian-Prussian army declared on 25th July 1792 that if the royal family were harmed, the city of Paris would be subject to 'military execution'.
Who is the Duke of Brunswick?
This region in the west of France saw an outbreak of civil war, embarrassing the revolutionaries.
What is the Vendee?
Approximately this many people were executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
What is 30,000?
This man's last words were “Don’t forget to show my head to the people, it’s worth it.”
Who is Danton?
What is 21st January 1793?
After the fall of Verdun, Paris was under direct threat of invasion. This panic led people to attacking prisons and murdering refractory priests and suspected traitors in this event.
What are the September Massacres?
This social group decided they were worse off under the new revolutionary government and rebelled, in counter-revolutionary or anti-revolutionary activities.
Who are the peasants?
This group, which had been the governing body of the National Convention, were expelled from the Convention in June 1793 and executed 31st October 1793.
Who are the Girondins?
What is the Law of 22 Prairial?
The Convention attempted to create new types of citizens by reorganising time and naming the months after nature. This meant that 1793 was now called this in the new republic.
What is Year II?
This General wanted to make an armistice with the Austrians but his army refused to follow him so he defected to Austria.
Who is General Dumouriez?
This group, who became the 'Twelve Who Ruled', were established to coordinate the war effort and given emergency powers, taking control of the country.
Who are the Committee of Public Safety?
This 'man of 1789' had a guillotine built especially for him, and was executed on 31st October 1793.
Who is Jean-Sylvain Bailly?
Hebert and his followers were sent to the guillotine after threatening Robespierre's power by advocating this.
What is increase the Terror?
Robespierre proposed this idea to counterbalance the policy of Terror.
What is virtue?
This battle on 20th September 1792 improved the military situation for France as the Prussian army was devastated by disease.
What is the Battle of Valmy?
What is 90%?
Who is Hebert?
After calling for an end to the Terror, Danton, Desmoulins and their followers, who were referred to as this, went to the guillotine on 5th April 1794.
Who are the Indulgents?
This document, suspended immediately and kept in a locked box until the end of the war, included principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, but also a "right to insurrection".
What is the Constitution of 1793?
300,000 troops were conscripted under this policy.
What is the levee en masse?
During the Federalist revolt, this city was declared a rebel city and 2000 Federalists were executed in October 1793.
What is Lyon?
This historian said “The French Revolution had, from 1788 onward, been made possible by force of arms, by violence and riot".
Who is Simon Schama?
The philosophe Condorcet tried to escape the Terror but was caught after ordering this dish at an inn. He committed suicide in prison but his dead body was still guillotined.
What is an omelette?