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France in Revolution, 1774–99

Dealing with internal and external threats

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Overview

Recall questions on the Verona Declaration and the emigres, Vendemiaire, chouannerie, the coups of Fructidor and Floreal, and the state of France by 1799.

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Key term

Who were the sans-culottes?

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What was the Verona Declaration?

Who and when

Who were the emigres and what threat did they pose?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    Who were the sans-culottes?

    Model answer

    Militant Parisian working people, artisans and shopkeepers, whose radicalism and pressure pushed the Revolution leftwards.

  2. 2

    How did Napoleon help defend the new regime in October 1795?

    Model answer

    He suppressed a royalist rising in Paris (the Vendémiaire revolt) with a 'whiff of grapeshot', earning military prominence.

  3. 3

    What was the Verona Declaration?

    Model answer

    Louis XVIII's proclamation of 1795 promising restoration of the ancien régime and punishment of regicides, which destroyed moderate royalism by leaving no middle ground.

  4. 4

    Who were the emigres and what threat did they pose?

    Model answer

    Nobles and officers abroad who formed armies, sought foreign intervention and encouraged risings, and whose property was confiscated and sale of it made irreversible.

  5. 5

    What was the rising of Vendémiaire?

    Model answer

    The royalist insurrection in Paris in October 1795 against the Two-Thirds Decree, dispersed by Bonaparte's artillery, the whiff of grapeshot.

  6. 6

    What was chouannerie?

    Model answer

    Persistent guerrilla resistance in Brittany and Normandy, royalist and Catholic in character, which continued long after the main Vendée revolt was crushed.

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