AP European History / W Civ
GPHS
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Frye
Assignment 4D– A Guillotine Christmas
The French Revolution
Dec 16-Jan 4
Read: Palmer Sections 41-45 [begin on page 363] and Sources Young “Plight of the French
Peasants” [p.100] Robespierre “Republic of Virtue” 116 [PD] and Green Book St-Just [PD]
A 5 point answer has the expectation of at least 1 paragraph [4 to 6 sentences]. A 10 point answer has the expectation of 2 to 3 paragraphs.
Do:
1. (Sec. 41) Describe conditions under the Old Regime [pre-1789 France]. Include a
quote from Young. Why was France ripe for revolt? [10]
2. [20 points] Based on sections 42-45
OPTION ONE: Make a cartoon history of the FRENCH REVOLUTION using the
terms below and highlighting the TERMS… 24 panel minimum.
OPTION TWO: Write a NARRATIVE SUMMARY [4-5 paras]. (Use the terms and
highlight).
IN EITHER CASE use
THE TERMS: Necker and Calonne, Louis XVI, Sieyes, National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath,
Bastille, The Great Fear, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Olympe deGouges, Oct.4
17891, Jacobins, Constitution of 1791, flight to Varennes, assignats, Civil Constitution of Clergy,
Girondins, Marat. Storming of the Tulierres, The National Convention, the Mountain, sansculottes, the Vendee (counterrevolution), enrages, Robespierre, Committee of Public Safety, The
Terror, levee en masse, Jacques Hebert and Dechristianization, Cult of the Supreme Being, Danton
// The Directory, N. Bonaparte and the Crisis of ’97, Battle of the Nile, Coup of 1799
…and HERE’S SOMETHING worth watching to help you [88 minutes] OR just youtube “French
Revolution History Channel Documentary” or Frye will email the link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB5NTI6NwqE
AP EURO ONLY Read St Just, Robespierre
3. Explain – using the history you have
learned and also referring to Robespierre &
St Just: What was the Terror? Why
did occur? (How would Enlightenment
ideas or Rousseau be part of the mindset
that justified the Terror?) Quote
Robespierre ONCE and HIGHLIGHT. [10]
AP EURO: 40 pos
WEST CIV: 30 pos
1
Palmer does not use this term but is known as The March of the Fishwives