The French Revolution Louis XV r 1715 1774

The French Revolution

Louis XV r. 1715 -1774

Duke of Orléans Regent to Louis XV

Cardinal Fleury Chief Minister under Louis XV

Louis XVI r. 1774 -1792

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 1757 -1834

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 1748 -1793

Emperor Leopold II of Austria

Frederick William II of Prussia

Massacre of the Swiss Guards

September Massacre

A Parisian Sans-Culottes

Maximilien Robespierre 1758 -1794

Georges Danton 17591794

Jean-Paul Marat 1743 -1793

The Execution of Louis XVI

Edmund Burke Author of Reflections on the Revolutions in France (1790)

William Pitt the Younger PM 1783 -1801 1804 -1806

Vendée: revolt against the Convention (1793)

The Reign of Terror

Georges Danton 17591794

Maximilien Robespierre 1758 -1794

The Guillotine

Olympe de Gouges 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 Being