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She was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born as the Archduchess of Austria. Marie Antoinette was married to King Louis XVI and she died October 16, 1793 -
He was a key figure of the French Revolution. He was a French aristocrat, Freemason, and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. He refused to participate in Napoleon’s Government. -
He was a radical democrat and key figure of the French Revolution. He briefly presided over the influential Jacobin Club that was a political club based in Paris. He served as president of the National Convention and was in the Committee of public Safety. -
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The members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath. It was a vow “not to separate and to reassemble whenever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established”. It was a pivotal even of the French Revolution. -
He was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and moralist. He wrote a severe critique of the new principal of equality before the law. -
A state Prison on the east side of Paris know as Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule. It became one the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
It was a general panic that too place at the start of the French Revolution. Unrest was present during the worsening grain shortage in France. Fueled rumors went around about and aristocratic ‘famine plot’ to starve or burn out the population. -
One of the earliest and most significant events from the French Revolution. It began among the women in the marketplace of Paris who were rioting over the high price of bread. The market women and there Allie’s grew into a mob of thousands. -
It was a very significant event during the French Revolution. King Louis XVI of France his wife and their immediate family tried to escape and were unsuccessful. They escaped only as far as Varennes-en-Argonne where they were arrested after having been recognized at there last stop. -
It was following the creation of the First Republic where many massacres and multiple public executions took place. It was in response to revolutionary fervor, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. And there is a disagreement among historians on when the actual ‘Terror’ began. -
The National Convention was the Revolutionary France’s third attempt at a national legislature. It follow the invasion of Tuileries. It was elected with a broader franchise than the Legislative Assembly. -
He was the last King of France before the monarchy fell during the French Revolution. During the first part of his reign he had tried to reform the French government with Enlightenment ideas. Some elements of the people viewed him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime. -
He was a French lawyer and a leading figure of the French Revolution. He became French Minister of Justice in 1792 and was responsible for the September Massacres. And in 1793 he became the first president of the Committee of Public Safety. -
The king was convicted of high treason after four days on trial by the National Convention. The vote was near-unanimous and while no one voted not guilty some didn’t vote all. He was publicly executed on 21 January, 1793
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French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution. He was the Emperor of the French from 1804-1814. Napoleon’s political and cultural legacy still is around today where it is celebrated and where he is seen as a highly controversial leader.