History
The Outbreak of the Revolution
Practice questions
What combined feeling did Necker’s dismissal and the presence of troops create in Paris?Why was the Paris crowd searching for arms not only a matter of military preparation?In what double meaning should the storming of the Bastille be understood?Why did the fall of the Bastille become so famous despite few prisoners inside?Stones of the Bastille being sold as souvenirs is evidence of which process?Why is it wrong to call the event of 14 July 1789 only a local event of Paris?The Bastille attack and Tennis Court Oath show which two forms of revolution?How did rumours in the Great Fear change rural society?What was the deepest meaning of peasants burning feudal records?What is the correct causal relation between the Great Fear and the decisions of 4 August?How did the decisions of 4 August 1789 transform rural discontent?Why can the end of feudal privileges not be called only economic relief?Why is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen called a sign of the direction of the Revolution?What is understood by studying the Declaration of Rights and the decisions of 4 August together?Why were bread and the king both linked in the march to Versailles?Bringing the king from Versailles to Paris indicated what change in the balance of power?Why is it incomplete to call the women's march to Versailles only a food movement?The rise of the Paris Commune and National Guard was evidence of what?With which moderate side of the Revolution can the National Guard be linked?Lafayette's role shows what type of political position in the Revolution?