The French Revolution

The French Revolution

1. What was THE immediate cause leading to the French Revolution? What were some of the other reasons?
2. What was the Estates-General?
3. Explain in your own words what Sieyès has to say about the Third Estate and the nobility, and describe his tone.
4. What was the Oath of the Tennis Court and what was its significance? What did it proclaim?
Why was it never finished?
5. What was the significance of the Fall of the Bastille?
6. What factors brought commoners into the political situation?
7. What was a sans-culotte? The Marselleise? The tricolour? What the colors represent?
8. Read the second document (letter from Gustav III, absolute ruler of Sweden, August 1789. Gustav had just learned of the event from his ambassador in Paris. Briefly state what the letter tells us (i) about the storming of the Bastille and (ii) about Gustav’s reaction to it.
9. What was the Flight to Varennes and how did it drastically change French history?
10. What were Edmund Burke’s views on the Revolution and how did it express conservative opinion?
11. How did European monarchs react to the revolution? Why did France declare war on its European neighbors?
12. Who were the Jacobins? The Girondins? What were their political positions?
13. What was the name of Marat’s newspaper and how did it contribute to the violence?
14. What was Robespierre’s role in the Reign of Terror? What was the Great Terror? What were Robespierre’s successes and failures?
15. When and how did the Great Terror end? What next? When did the Revolution end?
16. What events are represented in David’s Oath of the Horatii? Why did the painting become a symbol of the French revolutionary spirit?
17. How did the sciences and industry fare under the Enlightenment? Under the Revolution?
18. How was neoclassicism used as a tool of propaganda during the revolution? What did it symbolize? Use specific examples.
19. Why did the Revolutionary calendar begin in 1792 and not 1789?
20. What was David’s role in the Revolution?
21. What was the Revolution’s position with regard to Enlightenment goals?

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