the development of the terror
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- Development of the Terror
- The Journees of June and August 1792
- the sans-culottes used violence + crowd action to achieve political aims
- helped break a political deadlock
- June 1792- anniversary or tennis court oath, 8000 sans-culottes marched to Tuileries
- demanded Louis to withdraw vetoes + reinstate pro war ministers
- outcome of Louis making toast to nation+ wearing a bonnet rouge
- despite making no promises to demands, crowd were satisfied + were persuaded to go home by mayor
- outcome of Louis making toast to nation+ wearing a bonnet rouge
- demanded Louis to withdraw vetoes + reinstate pro war ministers
- Brunswick manifesto August 1st- if King harmed prisoners killed by Austrians
- 10th August 1792 20,000 sans- culottes + 2000 federes march on Tuileries
- King took refuge in Assembly, loyal national guardsmen + swiss guards defended King
- many national guard defected, King's defence massacred
- outcome
- King 'temporarily suspended', new convention promised with all men over 25 being able to vote
- Paris Commune replaced with 'insurrectionary Commune' with Jacobin majority
- key revolutionary body during terror
- the sans-culottes used violence + crowd action to achieve political aims
- The War
- Declaration of Pillnitz 27th August 1791
- Austria + Prussia calling on restoration of French crown
- people didn't take it too seriously as powers declared they'd only intervene if had more support
- Louis used suspensory veto against decree banishing emigres + refractory priests in wake of tension
- little opposition to war in Assembly as few left-wings had seats
- February 1792 Prussia promises 20,000 to Austria for war against France
- Leopold II dies March 1792 + Francis neglects French demands
- France declare war on Austria 20th April 1792
- Leopold II dies March 1792 + Francis neglects French demands
- The Brunswick Manifesto- Prussia declared to wreak vengeance on Paris if royal family hurt
- had opposite effect- inspired Parisians to defend
- 11th July 1792 La Patrie en danger issued to call on support for war effort
- Declaration of Pillnitz 27th August 1791
- September Massacres 1792
- new constitution 22nd Sep 1792
- caused by poor war proceedings + Prussian advancements into French territory
- Sep 2nd armed sans-culottes stormed prisons + killed 1000-1500 prisoners
- violence carried on till Sep 6th, 1/3 victims counter-revolutionaries
- created bigger political divide between moderate Girondins + radical Jacobins
- no Girondins elected in Parisian convention elections
- King's death 21st Jane 1793
- 1st Nov 1792- committee set up for legal problems about trial
- 20th Nov 1792, papers found proving Louis to have been in 'counter revolutionary' activities
- Louis put on trial, convention would act as judge + jury - 3rd Dec 1792
- The Journees of June and August 1792
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