QUOTES
Albert Soboul – The bourgeoisie, the leading element of the Third Estate now took over. Its aim was revolutionary... Before long, however, it was carried forward by the pressure of the masses, the real motive force behind the revolution.
Albert Soboul - The Enlightenment undermined the ideological foundations of the established order
Donald Sutherland - [The August Decrees] was a way of escaping a parliamentary impasse, as well as a device to appease the peasantry
François Furet - 'What Is The Third Estate?' offers us the French Revolution's biggest secret, which will form its deepest motivating force - hatred of the nobility
Francois Furet - [Dismissal of Necker was] interpreted as a double unlucky omen: bankruptcy and counter-revolution
Francois Furet – [Declaration of The National Assembly] A national will was taking shape, behind anti-absolutist unanimity
Francois Furet – [Paris Parlements] By opposing a single and proportional tax, they were protecting their own interests and at the same time gratifying public opinion
Francois Furet - The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation
George Rudé - [the National Assembly's actions at Versailles] made it impossible to arrest the course of the Revolution
George Rudé – [The 3rd Estate] Without which there would have been no revolution of 1789
Henri Lefebvre - The ultimate cause of the revolution was the rise of the Bourgeois
Simon Schama - [Society of Thirty] were courtiers against the court, aristocrats against privilege, officers who wanted to replace dynastic with national patriotism.
Simon Schama – It was in the Church more than any other group in France, that the separation between rich and poor was most bitterly articulated
Simon Schama - It was not because Calonne had shocked the Notables with his announcement of a new fiscal and political world; it was either because he had not gone far enough or because they disliked the operational methods build into the program
Simon Schama - It was the domestic perception of financial problems, not their reality that propelled successive French governments from anxiety to alarm to outright panic
William Doyle - [Tennis Court Oath] was one more assertion that they were subject to no other power in France
William Doyle - [The Founding of the National Assembly] was the founding act of the French Revolution. If the nation was sovereign, the king no longer was
William Doyle - [the Storming of the Bastille] was the climax of the popular movement
William Doyle - Hunger, hope and fear were the main ingredients of the rural crisis of 1789
William Doyle - It was resistance that made the revolution become violent
William Doyle - The French King's government could not command the confidence of its most eminent subjects.
William Doyle – [Events of Paris] The King had thrown away his authority almost as soon as he had tried to reassert it
William Doyle - The people of Paris [were] convinced that they alone had saved the National Assembly
Peter McPhee – [Financial Crisis] As the prices rose during the years of shortage, so did the tension between urban populations dependent on cheap and plentiful bread and the poorer sections of the rural community
Peter McPhee - Like the menu people of Paris, peasants adopted the language of bourgeois revolt to their own ends
Peter McPhee – [Political Crisis] Louis' acquiescence in the nobility's demand for voting to be in three separate orders galvanized the outrage of the bourgeois deputies
Peter McPhee - The calling of the Estates-General facilitated the expression of tensions at every level of French society, and revealed social divisions which challenged the idea of a society of orders
Peter McPhee - The Revolution of the Bourgeois deputies had only been secured by the active intervention of the people of Paris
Peter McPhee - The signal for popular action was the dismissal of Necker.
Albert Soboul - The Enlightenment undermined the ideological foundations of the established order
Donald Sutherland - [The August Decrees] was a way of escaping a parliamentary impasse, as well as a device to appease the peasantry
François Furet - 'What Is The Third Estate?' offers us the French Revolution's biggest secret, which will form its deepest motivating force - hatred of the nobility
Francois Furet - [Dismissal of Necker was] interpreted as a double unlucky omen: bankruptcy and counter-revolution
Francois Furet – [Declaration of The National Assembly] A national will was taking shape, behind anti-absolutist unanimity
Francois Furet – [Paris Parlements] By opposing a single and proportional tax, they were protecting their own interests and at the same time gratifying public opinion
Francois Furet - The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation
George Rudé - [the National Assembly's actions at Versailles] made it impossible to arrest the course of the Revolution
George Rudé – [The 3rd Estate] Without which there would have been no revolution of 1789
Henri Lefebvre - The ultimate cause of the revolution was the rise of the Bourgeois
Simon Schama - [Society of Thirty] were courtiers against the court, aristocrats against privilege, officers who wanted to replace dynastic with national patriotism.
Simon Schama – It was in the Church more than any other group in France, that the separation between rich and poor was most bitterly articulated
Simon Schama - It was not because Calonne had shocked the Notables with his announcement of a new fiscal and political world; it was either because he had not gone far enough or because they disliked the operational methods build into the program
Simon Schama - It was the domestic perception of financial problems, not their reality that propelled successive French governments from anxiety to alarm to outright panic
William Doyle - [Tennis Court Oath] was one more assertion that they were subject to no other power in France
William Doyle - [The Founding of the National Assembly] was the founding act of the French Revolution. If the nation was sovereign, the king no longer was
William Doyle - [the Storming of the Bastille] was the climax of the popular movement
William Doyle - Hunger, hope and fear were the main ingredients of the rural crisis of 1789
William Doyle - It was resistance that made the revolution become violent
William Doyle - The French King's government could not command the confidence of its most eminent subjects.
William Doyle – [Events of Paris] The King had thrown away his authority almost as soon as he had tried to reassert it
William Doyle - The people of Paris [were] convinced that they alone had saved the National Assembly
Peter McPhee – [Financial Crisis] As the prices rose during the years of shortage, so did the tension between urban populations dependent on cheap and plentiful bread and the poorer sections of the rural community
Peter McPhee - Like the menu people of Paris, peasants adopted the language of bourgeois revolt to their own ends
Peter McPhee – [Political Crisis] Louis' acquiescence in the nobility's demand for voting to be in three separate orders galvanized the outrage of the bourgeois deputies
Peter McPhee - The calling of the Estates-General facilitated the expression of tensions at every level of French society, and revealed social divisions which challenged the idea of a society of orders
Peter McPhee - The Revolution of the Bourgeois deputies had only been secured by the active intervention of the people of Paris
Peter McPhee - The signal for popular action was the dismissal of Necker.