The French Revolution

Louis XVLouis XV

r. 1715-r. 1715-17741774

Duke of OrlDuke of Orlééansans

Regent to Regent to Louis XVLouis XV

Cardinal Cardinal FleuryFleury

Chief Chief Minister Minister

under Louis under Louis XVXV

Louis XVI

r. 1774-1792

Jacques Jacques NeckerNecker

Finance Finance minister minister to Louis to Louis

XVIXVI

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 The Marquis de de

LafayetteLafayette

1757-18341757-1834

French Tri-Color National French Tri-Color National FlagFlag

The The Declaration of Declaration of the Rights of the Rights of

ManMan

The Women March on The Women March on VersaillesVersailles

The Return of the Royal Family to The Return of the Royal Family to ParisParis

Portrait of Marie

Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

and Children

The Hamlet at Versailles

Arrest of royal family at Varennes: June, 1791

83 Departements83 Departements

Olympe de Olympe de GougesGouges

1748-1793 1748-1793

Emperor Emperor Leopold II of Leopold II of

AustriaAustria

Frederick Frederick William II of William II of

PrussiaPrussia

Massacre of the Swiss Guards

September Massacre

A ParisianSans-Culottes

Maximilien Robespierre

1758-1794

Georges Danton

1759-1794

Jean-PaulJean-PaulMaratMarat

1743-17931743-1793

The Execution of Louis XVI

Edmund Edmund BurkeBurke

Author of Author of Reflections Reflections

on the on the Revolutions Revolutions in Francein France

(1790)(1790)

William Pitt the William Pitt the YoungerYounger

PM 1783-1801 PM 1783-1801 1804-18061804-1806

Vendée: revolt against the Convention (1793)

The Reign of TerrorThe Reign of Terror

Georges Danton

1759-1794

Maximilien Robespierre

1758-1794

The GuillotineThe Guillotine

Olympe de Olympe de GougesGouges

1748-1793 1748-1793

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 BeingFestival of the Supreme Being