Key Legislation

Question 1

August Decrees: When? What was achieved

Answer 1

• 5-11 Aug
• abolition of feudalism
• equality in eyes of social class due to birth

Question 2

Rude (Marxist) view of august Decrees

Answer 2

• ‘having won its victory over ‘privilege’ and ‘despotism’, the bourgeoisie now wanted peace and quiet in order to proceed with its task of giving France a constitution.’

Question 3

Le Chapelier Law: When? What was abolished?

Answer 3

• 14th june 1791
• abolished all associations of workmen and employers
• forbade associations of meetings of workmen, who were not allowed to find themselves together, name a president or secretary, nor keep registers.

Question 4

Constitution of 1791: What ideals were expressed?

Answer 4

• list of fundamental freedoms that echoed DORMAC
• property became sacred, and would receive compensation if had to be seized by government
• power resides in whole of nation (sovereignty)
• ## became constitutional monarchy

Question 5

Decree of Fraternity:

Answer 5

19th November: offered brotherhood and aid to all people who wished to recover their liberty, including military support in uprisings against oppressive governments.
- Considerably alarmed foreign powers.

Question 6

Law of General Maximum: Date? what changed

Answer 6

• Sept 29 1793
• limited price of grain and other essentials to one third above the 1790 prices and wages to one half of 1790 figures
• prices would be strictly enforced
• food supplies secured by army

Question 7

Law Of suspect: Date? What changed?

Answer 7

• Sept 17, 1793

- almost anyone not expressing enthusaiastic support for the republic could be placed under arrest.

Question 8

Decree on Revolutionary Government: Date? What changed?

Answer 8

• 10th October 1793
• COPS in control
• 1793 Const suspended
• Role of Rev armies
• Great committees more powerful than the convention

Question 9

Law of Frimaire (‘Constitution of the Terror’) Date, What happened?

Answer 9

• 4th December 1793
• made provisions for; committee of general security, committee of public safety, powers of departments and communes
• marked the reversals of principles of 1789 and characteristics of old regime re-appeared

Question 10

Law of 22 Prairial. Date? What happened?

Answer 10

• June 10 1794
• Trials were now limited to deciding only on liberty or death, with defendants having no rights
• law was so broadly written almost anyone could be a ‘an enemy of the people’