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Depth Studies (Unit 4)
Quick questions on The French Revolution 1774 to 1795: old regime, 1789, the Terror and Thermidor - WJEC A-Level History
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Whether the Terror was driven by circumstance or ideology is the central interpretive question, and the evidence supports a combination. The "thesis of circumstances", associated with Albert Mathiez and Georges Lefebvre, points to genuine emergency: France faced invasion in 1793, the Vendee was in open revolt, and federalist cities had risen, so emergency government and the Law of Suspects can be read as defensive measures. Yet the revisionist François Furet argues that the language of virtue and the general will, drawn from Rousseau and present in the Revolution from 1789, contained the seeds of terror, since dissent could be branded treason against the nation.
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What were the three Estates of the ancien regime? [3 marks]
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Who dominated the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror? [1 mark]
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To what extent was financial crisis the main reason the monarchy collapsed in 1789? [20 marks]
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