Individuals

Question 1

Louis XVI

Answer 1

• Relocated to Tuileries Palace
• Failed to ratify new laws (Including CCoC)
• Flight to Varennes
• Tuileries Palace Invasions
• Trial and Execution

Question 2

Danton

Answer 2

• Member of the Cordeliers
• The Terror
• 1793: a member of the Committee of Public Safety
• Advocated for end of Terror
• April 1794: Guillotined by Robespierre

Question 3

Marat

Answer 3

• Founded radical newspaper (L’Ami du Peuple)
• Prompted a populist militancy
• Supporter of and hero to sans-culottes
• Killed 13 July 1793
• Stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday

Question 4

Robespierre

Answer 4

• The “Incorruptible”
• Supported a constitutional monarchy
• President of the Jacobin Club
• Believed in the value of vertu
• Vertu is: Devotion to family, Devotion to work, Devotion to the ideals of revolution, Commitment to eliminate enemies of vertu
• Law of Self-Denying Ordinance
• The Terror
• Supported Law of Suspects
• The Thermidorian Reaction (executed 27-28 July 1794

Question 5

Lafayette

Answer 5

• Member of the Jacobin Club (Left in 1790)
• Founded Feuillants Cub
• Blamed for Champ de Mars Massacre
• Defects to Austria (19 Aug 1792) after failing to start a counter-rev