1791-92 CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
      October: Legislative Assembly elected under terms of Robespierre's
              "self-denying ordinance": members of National Assembly ineligible

JACOBINS: members of "Jacobin Club," political group in Paris after 1789
          middle class (propertied) revolutionaries, left wing pressure group
          public galleries installed in Assembly = influence of popular opinion
 1791: debate over going to war: ROBESPIERRE opposed; BRISSOT pro war

FACTIONS IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: (new terms right & left based on seating)
  RIGHT: FEUILLANTS -- support constitutional monarchy, Constitution of 1791;
             (264 deputies)   split from Jacobins over Republicanism
  LEFT: GIRONDINS -- leader is BRISSOT; most belong to Jacobin club; war party
             (136 deputies) social origin: wealthy bourgeois, but republican
  CENTER: no clear program; called independents or constitutionalists
             (345 deputies)    make up majority of Legislative Assembly

APRIL 1792: Legislative Assembly declares war; regiments formed across France

FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC 1792-1795          

1792: Fall of Constitutional Monarchy due to war, pressure of Parisian risings
      Military problems: out of 9,000 officers of royal army, only 3,000 remain
      Economic problems: assignat falls to 47% of face value by March 1792
                         food shortages, grain riots

SECOND REVOLUTION (REPUBLICAN) (parallel to Paris rising of 14 July 1789)
      20 June armed mob marches to Assembly, Tuileries, taunts King
      9-10 August: rising of Parisian population, Marseillaise regiment leads
            2cd attack on Tuileries (800 Swiss guards & nobles killed; 373 attackers)
      Legislative Assembly dissolves itself, calls election of National Convention

French national anthemn: La Marseillaise -- marching song of regiment from Marseilles
     Link to French/English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g

SEPTEMBER MASSACRES 1792 (parallel to Great Fear of 1789) popular fear of
      "5th column" of priests, aristocrats, traitors to revolution
      French Generals, incl. Duke of Brunswick & Lafayette, move against Paris
      Lafayette's troops rebel on order to attack Paris, he flees to Austria     
2-7 SEPT MASSACRES of priests, prisoners (aristocrats thought to be using"brigands")
      Statistics: 80 royal guards; 225 priests; 80 political prisoners,
                  1,300 ordinary criminals (= 1/2 prison population of Paris)

NATIONAL CONVENTION: revolutionary, democratic republic; weak Executive Council
      members to be elected by universal male suffrage, form new constitution
      but peasantry abstains en masse, opposed to Revolution since Summer 1789
      about 7.5% male population votes: Paris Jacobins; Provinces Girondins
 WAR: Battle of VALMY 1792 Dumouriez' French army victory over Duke of Brunswick

REPUBLIC: monarchy abolished, September 1792 = YEAR I OF THE REPUBLIC
   Factions in Convention:  GIRONDINS: moderate bourgeois republicans;
      MARAIS (The Plain): uncommitted center
      MONTAGNARDS (The Mountain): radicals, supported by Parisian population

1793 JAN: EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI (Citizen Louis Capet):
                MONTAGNARDS as REGICIDES
    Feb:    Defection of Dumouriez, French General and victor of Valmy
    March:  RISING OF THE VENDÉE: armed provincial revolt against Revolution
                  provoked by conscription, economic crisis
    Spring: ENRAGÉS Parisian radicals push for price controls, bread rationing
                leader is Jacques Roux: organizes bread riots by Paris mob or
            SAN CULOTTES (working class wears trousers); shopkeepers, laborers
    April: Institutions used in the Terror put in place by the Convention
       REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL set up to hear cases of treason against Revolution
       COMMITTE OF PUBLIC SAFETY elected to monitor Convention Executive Council