The French Revolution
Louis XV r
Duke of Orléans Regent to Louis XV
Cardinal Fleury Chief Minister under Louis XV
Louis XVI r
Jacques Necker Finance minister to Louis XVI
The peasant’s concept of the “ancien regime”
The Third Estate “shackled”
The Three Estates on the way to Versailles: Spring 1789
The Estates General of 1789
The “Awakening” of the Third Estate
Jacques Louis David The Tennis Court Oath (1791)
The Bastille: 14 July, 1789
The Marquis de Lafayette
French Tri-Color National Flag
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Women March on Versailles
The Return of the Royal Family to Paris
Portrait of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette and Children
The Hamlet at Versailles
Arrest of royal family at Varennes: June, 1791
83 Departements
Olympe de Gouges
Emperor Leopold II of Austria
Frederick William II of Prussia
Massacre of the Swiss Guards
September Massacre
A Parisian Sans-Culottes
Maximilien Robespierre
Georges Danton
Jean-Paul Marat
The Execution of Louis XVI
Edmund Burke Author of Reflections on the Revolutions in France (1790)
William Pitt the Younger PM
Vendée: revolt against the Convention (1793)
The Reign of Terror
Georges Danton
Maximilien Robespierre
The Guillotine
Olympe de Gouges
Marie Antoinette and Children
Execution of Marie Antoinette: October, 1793
Marie Antoinette going to her execution A sketch by Jacques-Louis David
Festival of the Supreme Being