■ COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   How would you explain the difference in tone between the “Notebooks of Grievances” (Document 19-1) and Abbé Sieyès’s “What Is the Third Estate” (Document 19-2)? What changed between the summer and fall of 1789?

2. Question

   In what ways did the points expressed in the “Notebooks of Grievances” (Document 19-1) find their way into the “Declaration of the Rights of Man” (Document 19-3)? Were any points left out of the declaration? If so, why do you suppose they were excluded?

3. Question

   Compare and contrast the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen,” (Document 19-3) the “Law of 22 Prairial,” (Document 19-4) and the Napoleonic Code (Document 19-5). What light do they shed on the evolution of French politics between 1789 and 1804?

4. Question

   What similarities exist between the arguments of Mary Wollstonecraft (Document 19-6) and Toussaint L’Ouverture (Document 19-7) for their groups’ inclusion in the new political order? What differences can you discern?

5. Question

   Based on the “Declaration of the Rights of Man,” (Document 19-3) Mary Wollstonecraft’s argument (Document 19-6), and Toussaint L’Ouverture’s letter (Document 19-7), what were the limits of liberty and equality promised by the Revolution?