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Key Figures and Events of the French Revolution

This quiz tests your knowledge on key figures, events, and concepts related to the French Revolution, including important activists, historical dates, and significant legislation.

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1 ________ (aka Manon or Marie Roland) was another important female activist.

2 This date was later retroactively adopted as the beginning of Year One of the ________.

3 On 9 September, the Convention established sans-culottes paramilitary forces, the revolutionary armies, to force farmers to surrender ________ demanded by the government.

4 In his book The Rebel, ________ wrote that the execution was the turning point of French contemporary history, "an act that secularized the French world and banished God from the subsequent history of the French people".

5 Which of the following titles did French Revolution have?

6 Where is French Revolution?

7 The ________, passed on 12 July 1790, turned the remaining clergy into employees of the state.

8 ________, a noteworthy rebellion, though not quite a revolution

9 Necker, Mounier, Lally-Tollendal and others argued unsuccessfully for a ________, with members appointed by the crown on the nomination of the people.

10 What format does French Revolution follow?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Brunswick Manifesto, issued during the French Revolution to intimidate Paris, backfired and spurred further revolutionary action.
  • the basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne (pictured) houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution.
  • meetings of the Committee of Public Safety, the de facto executive government during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, were convened at the Pavillon de Flore in Paris' Palais du Louvre.
  • the church of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was destroyed during the French Revolution and all its contents sold.
  • the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution.
  • until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections.
  • the purpose of the Assembly of Vizille was to discuss the events of the Day of the Tiles, one of the first revolts that preceded the French Revolution.
  • the influential architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, who had amassed a fortune working on the notoriously unpopular Wall of the Farmers-General (pictured), was arrested and thrown in La Force Prison during the French Revolution.
  • makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals.
  • during the French Revolution, the lawyer defending Marie Antoinette, Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde, came under such suspicion for the able defense he made, that he was forced to defend himself before the Comité de sûreté générale.
  • Etta Palm d'Aelders, whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat, François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution, might have been an agent for the Dutch government.
  • Mutzig's Château des Rohan (pictured) belonged to several families of noblemen and bishops of Strasbourg before being turned into a rifle factory after the French Revolution.
  • French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the French Revolution.
  • Karaköy, part of ancient Galata, and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn, was the birthplace of André Chénier, a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution.
  • Peter P. Dubrovsky, Russian diplomat, collected valuable manuscripts from destroyed libraries during the time of the French Revolution.
  • during the French Revolution, an effigy of Thomas Paine was burned before the door of the religious radical Rev. Joshua Toulmin.
  • during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye (pictured) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence.
  • France: An Ode, by Samuel Coleridge (pictured), describes his support of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror but not the invasion of Switzerland.
  • Augustin Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is considered one of the founding documents of the right-wing interpretation of the French Revolution.
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