The French Revolution from 1789-1799

through pictures and prints which representrole of the middle class

The Age of Enlightenment

Nobility and clergy take advantage of peasants

Third Estate crushed by the heavy levies imposed

Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette

Nobility enjoying a stag hunt

Forming a budget for France

The Great Fear

The Three Estates on the way to Versailles

The Marquis de Lafayette

Oath of the Tennis Court

Three Estates hammer out a constitution for France

Fall of the Bastille

Signing the Declaration of Rights

March to Versailles

Jacobin Clubs

France at war with Europe

September Massacre

Execution of Marie Antoinette

Reign of Terror

Robespierre

The five headed Directory

Fall of Directory

Napoleon’s coup d’ etat