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The most famous passage in Burke's Reflections was his description of the events of 5–6 October 1789 and the part of Marie-Antoinette in them. Burke's account differs little from modern historians who have used primary sources. His use of flowery language to describe it, however, provoked both praise and criticism. Philip Francis wrote to Burke saying that what he wrote of Marie-Antoinette was "pure foppery". Edward Gibbon, however, reacted differently: "I adore his chivalry". Burke was informed by an Englishman who had talked with the Duchesse de Biron, that when Marie-Antoinette was reading the passage, she burst into tears and took considerable time to finish reading it. Price had rejoiced that the French king had been "led in triumph" during the October Days, but to Burke this symbolised the opposing revolutionary sentiment of the Jacobins and the natural sentiments of those who shared his own view with horror—that the ungallant assault on Marie-Antoinette—was a cowardly attack on a defenceless woman.

Question: Who was featured in the most well-known part of Burke's Reflections?
Answer: Marie-Antoinette

Question: Who said Burke wrote 'pure foppery' about Marie-Antoinette?
Answer: Philip Francis

Question: Who adored Burke's chivalry?
Answer: Edward Gibbon

Question: How did Marie-Antoinette react to Burke's writing about her?
Answer: she burst into tears
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Louis XVI translated the Reflections "from end to end" into French. Fellow Whig MPs Richard Sheridan and Charles James Fox, disagreed with Burke and split with him. Fox thought the Reflections to be "in very bad taste" and "favouring Tory principles". Other Whigs such as the Duke of Portland and Earl Fitzwilliam privately agreed with Burke, but did not wish for a public breach with their Whig colleagues. Burke wrote on 29 November 1790: "I have received from the Duke of Portland, Lord Fitzwilliam, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord John Cavendish, Montagu (Frederick Montagu MP), and a long et cetera of the old Stamina of the Whiggs a most full approbation of the principles of that work and a kind indulgence to the execution". The Duke of Portland said in 1791 that when anyone criticised the Reflections to him, he informed them that he had recommended the book to his sons as containing the true Whig creed.

Question: Who re-translated the Reflections into French?
Answer: Louis XVI

Question: Which British ministers disagreed with Burke's Reflections?
Answer: Richard Sheridan and Charles James Fox

Question: What political party was Charles James Fox?
Answer: Whig

Question: What political party was Earl Fitzwilliam?
Answer: Whigs

Question: What political party was Richard Sheridan?
Answer: Whig
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Burke's Reflections sparked a pamphlet war. Thomas Paine penned the Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to Burke; Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Men and James Mackintosh wrote Vindiciae Gallicae. Mackintosh was the first to see the Reflections as "the manifesto of a Counter Revolution". Mackintosh later agreed with Burke's views, remarking in December 1796 after meeting him, that Burke was "minutely and accurately informed, to a wonderful exactness, with respect to every fact relating to the French Revolution". Mackintosh later said: "Burke was one of the first thinkers as well as one of the greatest orators of his time. He is without parallel in any age, excepting perhaps Lord Bacon and Cicero; and his works contain an ampler store of political and moral wisdom than can be found in any other writer whatever".

Question: Who wrote 'The Rights of Man'?
Answer: Thomas Paine

Question: Who wrote 'A Vindication of the Rights of Men'?
Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft

Question: Who said the Reflections were "the manifesto of a Counter Revolution"?
Answer: James Mackintosh

Question: Who did Mackintosh compare Burke to?
Answer: Lord Bacon and Cicero

Question: What types of wisdom did Mackintosh say Burke had?
Answer: political and moral
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In November 1790, François-Louis-Thibault de Menonville, a member of the National Assembly of France, wrote to Burke, praising Reflections and requesting more "very refreshing mental food" that he could publish. This Burke did in April 1791 when he published A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. Burke called for external forces to reverse the revolution and included an attack on the late French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as being the subject of a personality cult that had developed in revolutionary France. Although Burke conceded that Rousseau sometimes showed "a considerable insight into human nature" he mostly was critical. Although he did not meet Rousseau on his visit to Britain in 1766–7 Burke was a friend of David Hume, with whom Rousseau had stayed. Burke said Rousseau "entertained no principle either to influence of his heart, or to guide his understanding—but vanity"—which he "was possessed to a degree little short of madness". He also cited Rousseau's Confessions as evidence that Rousseau had a life of "obscure and vulgar vices" that was not "chequered, or spotted here and there, with virtues, or even distinguished by a single good action". Burke contrasted Rousseau's theory of universal benevolence and his having sent his children to a foundling hospital: "a lover of his kind, but a hater of his kindred".

Question: Who asked Burke for more "very refreshing mental food"?
Answer: François-Louis-Thibault de Menonville

Question: When did Burke release 'A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly'?
Answer: April 1791

Question: Which French philosopher did Burke attack?
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question: When did Rousseau visit Britain?
Answer: 1766–7

Question: Who did Rousseau stay with when visiting Britain?
Answer: David Hume
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These events and the disagreements that arose from them within the Whig Party, led to its break-up and to the rupture of Burke's friendship with Fox. In debate in Parliament on Britain's relations with Russia, Fox praised the principles of the revolution, although Burke was not able to reply at this time as he was "overpowered by continued cries of question from his own side of the House". When Parliament was debating the Quebec Bill for a constitution for Canada, Fox praised the revolution and criticised some of Burke's arguments, such as hereditary power. On 6 May 1791, during another debate in Parliament on the Quebec Bill, Burke used the opportunity to answer Fox, and to condemn the new French Constitution and "the horrible consequences flowing from the French idea of the Rights of Man". Burke asserted that those ideas were the antithesis of both the British and the American constitutions. Burke was interrupted, and Fox intervened, saying that Burke should be allowed to carry on with his speech. A vote of censure was moved against Burke, however, for noticing the affairs of France, which was moved by Lord Sheffield and seconded by Fox. Pitt made a speech praising Burke, and Fox made a speech—both rebuking and complimenting Burke. He questioned the sincerity of Burke, who seemed to have forgotten the lessons he had learned from him, quoting from Burke's own speeches of fourteen and fifteen years before.

Question: Fox praised revolutionary principles in a debate about which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: What type of power did Fox think Burke was wrong about?
Answer: hereditary

Question: Which constitution did Burke condemn on May 6, 1791?
Answer: French

Question: Fox quoted Burke's speeches from how long ago?
Answer: fourteen and fifteen years
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At this point, Fox whispered that there was "no loss of friendship". "I regret to say there is", Burke replied, "I have indeed made a great sacrifice; I have done my duty though I have lost my friend. There is something in the detested French constitution that envenoms every thing it touches". This provoked a reply from Fox, yet he was unable to give his speech for some time since he was overcome with tears and emotion, he appealed to Burke to remember their inalienable friendship, but also repeated his criticisms of Burke and uttered "unusually bitter sarcasms". This only aggravated the rupture between the two men. Burke demonstrated his separation from the party on 5 June 1791 by writing to Fitzwilliam, declining money from him.

Question: When did Burke leave the Whig party?
Answer: 5 June 1791

Question: Who did Burke turn down money from?
Answer: Fitzwilliam

Question: What did Burke say 'envenoms everything it touches'?
Answer: French constitution

Question: Who thought that Fox and Burke could still be friends?
Answer: Fox

Question: Who thought that Fox and Burke's friendship was lost?
Answer: Burke
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Burke knew that many members of the Whig Party did not share Fox's views and he wanted to provoke them into condemning the French Revolution. Burke wrote that he wanted to represent the whole Whig party "as tolerating, and by a toleration, countenancing those proceedings" so that he could "stimulate them to a public declaration of what every one of their acquaintance privately knows to be...their sentiments". Therefore, on 3 August 1791 Burke published his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in which he renewed his criticism of the radical revolutionary programmes inspired by the French Revolution and attacked the Whigs who supported them, as holding principles contrary to those traditionally held by the Whig party.

Question: What did Burke want the Whigs to condemn?
Answer: the French Revolution

Question: What did Burke publish on Aug 3, 1791?
Answer: Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Question: Burke thought the French Revolution was against whose principles?
Answer: the Whig party

Question: Burke attacked Whigs who supported what?
Answer: the French Revolution
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Although Whig grandees such as Portland and Fitzwilliam privately agreed with Burke's Appeal, they wished he had used more moderate language. Fitzwilliam saw the Appeal as containing "the doctrines I have sworn by, long and long since". Francis Basset, a backbench Whig MP, wrote to Burke: "...though for reasons which I will not now detail I did not then deliver my sentiments, I most perfectly differ from Mr. Fox & from the great Body of opposition on the French Revolution". Burke sent a copy of the Appeal to the king and the king requested a friend to communicate to Burke that he had read it "with great Satisfaction". Burke wrote of its reception: "Not one word from one of our party. They are secretly galled. They agree with me to a title; but they dare not speak out for fear of hurting Fox. ... They leave me to myself; they see that I can do myself justice". Charles Burney viewed it as "a most admirable book—the best & most useful on political subjects that I have ever seen" but believed the differences in the Whig Party between Burke and Fox should not be aired publicly.

Question: Who thought Burke should have written in a more moderate tone?
Answer: Portland and Fitzwilliam

Question: Who said he 'perfectly differed from Mr. Fox'?
Answer: Francis Basset

Question: What was Francis Basset's political party?
Answer: Whig

Question: How did Burke think the Whigs secretly felt?
Answer: galled

Question: Who thought Burke and Fox shouldn't have made their argument public?
Answer: Charles Burney
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Burke supported the war against revolutionary France, seeing Britain as fighting on the side of the royalists and émigres in a civil war, rather than fighting against the whole nation of France. Burke also supported the royalist uprising in La Vendée, describing it on 4 November 1793 in a letter to William Windham, as "the sole affair I have much heart in". Burke wrote to Henry Dundas on 7 October urging him to send reinforcements there, as he viewed it as the only theatre in the war that might lead to a march on Paris. Dundas did not follow Burke's advice, however.

Question: Who did Burke write to on Nov 4, 1793?
Answer: William Windham

Question: Which faction's uprising in La Vendee did Burke support?
Answer: royalist

Question: Who did Burke urge to send reinforcements to La Vendee?
Answer: Henry Dundas

Question: Where did Burke think La Vendee might lead to a march on?
Answer: Paris

Question: What did Burke support Britain fighting against?
Answer: revolutionary France
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Burke believed the Government was not taking the uprising seriously enough, a view reinforced by a letter he had received from the Prince Charles of France (S.A.R. le comte d'Artois), dated 23 October, requesting that he intercede on behalf of the royalists to the Government. Burke was forced to reply on 6 November: "I am not in His Majesty's Service; or at all consulted in his Affairs". Burke published his Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France, begun in October, where he said: "I am sure every thing has shewn us that in this war with France, one Frenchman is worth twenty foreigners. La Vendée is a proof of this".

Question: When did Prince Charles write to Burke?
Answer: 23 October

Question: How many foreign supporters did Burke think a French royalist was worth?
Answer: twenty

Question: What did Burke see as proof of the importance of French royalists?
Answer: La Vendée

Question: What country was Prince Charles part of the ruling family of?
Answer: France

Question: In what writing did Burke comment about the importance of La Vendee?
Answer: Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France
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On 20 June 1794, Burke received a vote of thanks from the Commons for his services in the Hastings Trial and he immediately resigned his seat, being replaced by his son Richard. A tragic blow fell upon Burke with the loss of Richard in August 1794, to whom he was tenderly attached, and in whom he saw signs of promise, which were not patent to others and which, in fact, appear to have been non-existent (though this view may have rather reflected the fact that Richard Burke had worked successfully in the early battle for Catholic emancipation). King George III, whose favour he had gained by his attitude on the French Revolution, wished to create him Earl of Beaconsfield, but the death of his son deprived the opportunity of such an honour and all its attractions, so the only award he would accept was a pension of £2,500. Even this modest reward was attacked by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, to whom Burke replied in his Letter to a Noble Lord (1796): "It cannot at this time be too often repeated; line upon line; precept upon precept; until it comes into the currency of a proverb, To innovate is not to reform". He argued that he was rewarded on merit, but the Duke of Bedford received his rewards from inheritance alone, his ancestor being the original pensioner: "Mine was from a mild and benevolent sovereign; his from Henry the Eighth". Burke also hinted at what would happen to such people if their revolutionary ideas were implemented, and included a description of the British constitution:

Question: When did Burke receive a vote of thanks?
Answer: 20 June 1794

Question: When did Burke's son die?
Answer: August 1794

Question: What did King George III want to make Burke an Earl of?
Answer: Beaconsfield

Question: How much money did Burke accept instead of the Earlship?
Answer: £2,500

Question: Who attacked Burke for receiving recognition from King George III?
Answer: Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale
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Burke's last publications were the Letters on a Regicide Peace (October 1796), called forth by negotiations for peace with France by the Pitt government. Burke regarded this as appeasement, injurious to national dignity and honour. In his Second Letter, Burke wrote of the French Revolutionary Government: "Individuality is left out of their scheme of government. The State is all in all. Everything is referred to the production of force; afterwards, everything is trusted to the use of it. It is military in its principle, in its maxims, in its spirit, and in all its movements. The State has dominion and conquest for its sole objects—dominion over minds by proselytism, over bodies by arms".

Question: What was Burke's final publication?
Answer: Letters on a Regicide Peace

Question: When was Burke's final publication?
Answer: October 1796

Question: What did Burke think was missing from the French Revolutionary Government?
Answer: Individuality

Question: What did Burke think were the French Revolutionary Government's only goals?
Answer: dominion and conquest

Question: What negotiations did Burke think were appeasement?
Answer: negotiations for peace with France by the Pitt government
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This is held to be the first explanation of the modern concept of totalitarian state. Burke regarded the war with France as ideological, against an "armed doctrine". He wished that France would not be partitioned due to the effect this would have on the balance of power in Europe, and that the war was not against France, but against the revolutionaries governing her. Burke said: "It is not France extending a foreign empire over other nations: it is a sect aiming at universal empire, and beginning with the conquest of France".

Question: What did Burke think the war with France was against?
Answer: an "armed doctrine"

Question: Burke hoped which country wouldn't be partitioned?
Answer: France

Question: What kind of empire did Burke think the French revolutionaries wanted?
Answer: universal

Question: Who did Burke think the war was against, rather than France as a whole?
Answer: the revolutionaries governing her
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In November 1795, there was a debate in Parliament on the high price of corn and Burke wrote a memorandum to Pitt on the subject. In December Samuel Whitbread MP introduced a bill giving magistrates the power to fix minimum wages and Fox said he would vote for it. This debate probably led Burke to editing his memorandum, as there appeared a notice that Burke would soon publish a letter on the subject to the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Arthur Young; but he failed to complete it. These fragments were inserted into the memorandum after his death and published posthumously in 1800 as, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. In it, Burke expounded "some of the doctrines of political economists bearing upon agriculture as a trade". Burke criticised policies such as maximum prices and state regulation of wages, and set out what the limits of government should be:

Question: Who did Burke write to about the price of corn?
Answer: Pitt

Question: Who introduced a bill in 1795 about minimum wage?
Answer: Samuel Whitbread

Question: Who was the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture?
Answer: Arthur Young

Question: Burke's unfinished letter to Arthur Young became part of what publication?
Answer: Thoughts and Details on Scarcity

Question: When was 'Thoughts and Details on Scarcity' published?
Answer: 1800
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Writing to a friend in May 1795, Burke surveyed the causes of discontent: "I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendency, as they affect Ireland; or of Indianism [i.e. corporate tyranny, as practiced by the British East Indies Company], as they affect these countries, and as they affect Asia; or of Jacobinism, as they affect all Europe, and the state of human society itself. The last is the greatest evil". By March 1796, however Burke had changed his mind: "Our Government and our Laws are beset by two different Enemies, which are sapping its foundations, Indianism, and Jacobinism. In some Cases they act separately, in some they act in conjunction: But of this I am sure; that the first is the worst by far, and the hardest to deal with; and for this amongst other reasons, that it weakens discredits, and ruins that force, which ought to be employed with the greatest Credit and Energy against the other; and that it furnishes Jacobinism with its strongest arms against all formal Government".

Question: Whose ascendancy did Burke think was malignant?
Answer: Protestant

Question: What did Burke call corporate tyranny in India?
Answer: Indianism

Question: Which continent did Jacobinism affect?
Answer: Europe

Question: When did Burke decide Indianism was the worst threat?
Answer: March 1796

Question: What did Burke think was the worst threat in 1795?
Answer: Jacobinism
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Burke believed that property was essential to human life. Because of his conviction that people desire to be ruled and controlled, the division of property formed the basis for social structure, helping develop control within a property-based hierarchy. He viewed the social changes brought on by property as the natural order of events, which should be taking place as the human race progressed. With the division of property and the class system, he also believed that it kept the monarch in check to the needs of the classes beneath the monarch. Since property largely aligned or defined divisions of social class, class too, was seen as natural—part of a social agreement that the setting of persons into different classes, is the mutual benefit of all subjects. Concern for property is not Burke's only influence. As Christopher Hitchens summarises, "If modern conservatism can be held to derive from Burke, it is not just because he appealed to property owners in behalf of stability but also because he appealed to an everyday interest in the preservation of the ancestral and the immemorial."

Question: What did Burke think was crucial for human life?
Answer: property

Question: What did Burke think a social hierarchy should be based on?
Answer: property

Question: Who did Burke think a social class structure benefited?
Answer: all subjects

Question: Who wrote that Burke "appealed to property owners"?
Answer: Christopher Hitchens

Question: What did Hitchens think Burke supported preserving?
Answer: the ancestral and the immemorial