FRSC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: September Massacres, Jean-Paul Marat, The Great Terror
8 May 2018
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French'Revolution'Study'Guide'
Chronology)of)Important)Events)
•The'Assembly'of'Notables'(1787)
•Opening'session'of'the'Estates'General'(May'5,'1789)
•The'Third'Estate'becomes'National'Assembly'(June'17,'1789)
•Tennis'Court'Oath'(June'20,'1789)
•Storming'of'the'Bastille'(July'14,'1789)
•National'Assembly'outlaws'“feudalism”'(August'4,'1789)
•Declaration'of'Rights'of'Man'and'Citizen'(August'26,'1789)
•Marat’s'L’Ami&du&Peuple'begins'publication'(September'1789)
•Louis'XVI'and'Marie-Antoinette'return'to'Paris'(October'5'and'6,'1789)
•National'Assembly'proclaims'execution'by'guillotine'(June'1791)
•Louis'and'Marie-Antoinette’s'flight'and'capture'in'Varennes'(June'20,'1791)
•France'declares'war'on'Austria'(April'20,'1792)
•Sans-culottes'storm'Tuileries'(August'10,'1792)
•September'Massacres'(September'2'to'6,'1792)
•French'Republic'established'(September'22,'1792)
•Louis'XVI'is'executed'(January'21,'1793)
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Uprising'in'Vendée'(March'11,'1793)
•Girondins'arrested'(May'31'to'June'2,'1793)
•De-Christianization'(spring'1793-summer'1794)
•Marat'killed'by'Charlotte'Corday'(July'13,'1793)
•Robespierre'named'to'lead'Committee'of'Public'Safety'(July'27,'1793)
•Marie-Antoinette'is'executed'(October'16,'1793)
•The'Great'Terror'(spring'to'summer'1794)
•Danton'is'executed'(April'5,'1794)
•Robespierre'and'proponents'are'executed'(July'28'and'29,'1794)
Events,)institutions,)and)people)to)know)in)greater)detail)
1. Louis'and'Marie-Antoinette’s'flight'from'Paris'and'capture'in'Varennes
2. Jean'Paul'Marat'and'L’Ami&du&Peuple
3. Counterrevolution'involving'other'nations'and'French'loyal'to'king
4. Attack'on'the'Tuileries'Palace'on'August'10,'1792'(what'prompted'it?)
