1. Write a headline, or brief explanation, or caption for each picture
Work as a group
Write your answer on your whiteboard

3. "Liberty leading the People"
by Eugène Delacroix

5. 1774, Louis XVI takes the throne at the age of 19, with his wife, Marie Antoinette.

7. Palace of Versailles May, 1789 (15 years later)
Louis XVI’s government is bankrupt. A meeting of the Estates General is called at the Versailles Palace.

9. “The Third Estate Awakens”
June, 1789
National Assembly declared
Tennis Court Oath
“The Third Estate Awakens”

11. Storming of the Bastille prison, the opening event of the French Revolution, on July 14, 1789

13. August, 1789
National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

15. French peasants

17. July, 1789
The Great Fear begins as peasants revolt across France

19. 1790
Parisian women storm Versailles demanding bread and bring the Royal family to Paris
The King signs the constitution

21. The royal family is moved to the Tuileries Palace
The royal family is moved to the Tuileries Palace. Not too shabby for political prisoners.

23. September, 1791 National Assembly is dissolved
Constitutional Monarchy created
Robespierre leads the radical faction, the Jacobins

24. September, 1792 Abolition of the Monarchy France declared a Republic.
All adult male citizens are granted the right to vote and hold office.
Women not given the same rights

26. January, 1793
The head of King Louis XVI is shown to the crowd;
thousands would become victims of Robespierre’s "Committee of Public Safety" and "Revolutionary Tribunal"

28. 1793
Reign of Terror

30. Jean-Paul Marat assassinated
July, 1793
Jean-Paul Marat assassinated

32. May, 1794
Robespierre, revolutionary turned despot, abolishes the worship of god and institutes the Cult of Reason and the new religion of the Supreme Being

34. April, 1794
“Don’t forget to show my head to the people. It’s well worth seeing.
My only regret is that I am going before that rat Robespierre."

36. July, 1794
Execution of Robespierre

38. Marie Tussaud was employed to make death masks of the victims of the guillotine, including some of the revolution's most infamous dead such as Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette,Marat, and Robespierre.
Her death masks were held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris. 

40. Napoleon Bonaparte, military general, to the rescue

42. November, 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte, named First Consul