Trial+of+the+King


 * Sources 1, 2 and 3 below highlight the case for the prosecution. ****Read them carefully. **

**Source 1: **//From a speech by a radical deputy, Goupilleau. // “Citizens, let me repeat his infamous words: ‘In my heart I cannot approve the Revolution and the detestable constitution.’”

**Source 2: **//From a speech by Saint-Just, the youngest deputy. //

“He oppressed a free nation; he declared himself its enemy; he abused its laws; he must die to ensure the peacefulness of the people, since to assure his own he intended that the people be crushed. Monarchy is an outrage. No man can reign innocently. Louis is an alien among us and not a citizen. He must die.”

**Source 3: **// From a speech by Mailhe, a deputy from Toulouse //

“After having accepted the 1791 constitution, Louis declared he was a prisoner. That was a signal for foreign powers to come to his aid. Instead of resisting the Prussian and Austrian invasions, he organised treason in all border towns. He continued to support the émigrés with money, and paralysed the actions of the government. His acceptance of the constitution was just a trick to keep him on the throne while he waited for the foreign armies to re-establish his rule on the ruins of the constitution.”


 * 1) 1. Read the sources. What is Louis accused of in: a) source 1; b) source 2 and c) source 3? (Write as many as you can). [6]
 * 2) 2. What does Saint-Just think should happen to Louis? [6]
 * 3) 3. What impression of Louis does sources 1, 2 and 3 give you? (Short paragraph with reference to specific sources please). [6 marks for eache source. Total marks 18]


 * These sources were presented as Louis’s defence. ****Read them carefully. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Source 4. **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">From a speech by De Seze, one of Louis’s defence lawyers. //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Louis was the first king to voluntarily give up some of his power for the good of the people. You called him the ‘restorer of French liberty’.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Source 5. **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">From a speech by Malesherbes, one of Louis’s defence lawyers. //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“On 6th October 1789 at Versailles he ordered his armed guards not to defend him.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">At Varennes he preferred to be brought back rather than cause the death of a single man. You blame him for the blood that has been shed, but on 10 August 1792 he came to the Assembly to prevent it being shed.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Source 6. **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">From Louis’s own defence. //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I have not broken the law since the constitution was introduced. I will defend each of my actions as morally correct and faithful to the letter of the law. I have done nothing except for the good of the people. I will argue for my life but not beg for it.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Source 7. **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Louis’s response when questioned about hidden documents which showed him trying to encourage foreign armies to invade France, and trying to bribe deputies. //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I have no knowledge of it. It is not my handwriting.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Source 8. **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Louis’s response to the charge of disorganising the army. //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Never did the idea of counter revolution enter my head. There is not one word of truth in this accusation.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1) Read sources 4 and 5. What defense does each source offer on behalf of Louis? [6 each. Total 12]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2) What opinion do you have of Louis after reading sources 4 and 5? Why? [7]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3) Read sources 6, 7 and 8. What opinion of Louis do these sources give you? Explain how. [6 each]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4) Read Louis’s answers to the charges in sources 7 and 8 again. Do you believe him? Explain why. [7]