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Key Figures

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  • Abbé Grégoire Constitutional Clergyman
  • Antoine Barnave Constitutional Monarchist
  • Antoine Lavoisier Scientist
  • Camille Desmoulins Revolutionary Journalist
  • Charlotte Corday Assassin
  • Condorcet Political Theorist
  • Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Political Theorist
  • Georges Couthon Jacobin Leader
  • Georges Danton Revolutionary Leader
  • Gracchus Babeuf Radical Activist
  • Jacques Hébert Radical Journalist
  • Jacques Necker Finance Minister
  • Jacques Roux Enragés Leader
  • Jacques-Louis David Revolutionary Artist
  • Jean-Baptiste Carrier Revolutionary Deputy
  • Jean-Lambert Tallien Thermidorian Leader
  • Jean-Paul Marat Radical Journalist
  • Jean-Sylvain Bailly Mayor of Paris
  • Joseph Fouché Minister of Police
  • Lafayette Military Commander
  • Lazare Carnot Military Organizer
  • Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Jacobin Leader
  • Louis Philippe II Revolutionary Aristocrat
  • Louis XVI King of France
  • Louis XVII Dauphin of France
  • Madame de Staël Intellectual
  • Madame du Barry Former Royal Favorite
  • Madame Roland Girondin Influencer
  • Marie Antoinette Queen of France
  • Maximilien Robespierre Revolutionary Leader
  • Mirabeau Revolutionary Orator
  • Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader
  • Olympe de Gouges Feminist Activist
  • Paul Barras Directory Member
  • Philippe Buonarroti Ultra-revolutionary
  • Pierre Vergniaud Girondin Leader
  • Thomas Paine Revolutionary Supporter
The French Revolution

Important Events

  • Abolition of Feudalism
  • Abolition of the Monarchy
  • Battle of Fleurus
  • Battle of Valmy
  • Brunswick Manifesto Issued
  • Champ de Mars Massacre
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy
  • Constitution of 1791 Adopted
  • Coup of 18 Brumaire
  • Declaration of Pillnitz
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Adopted
  • Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen Published
  • Establishment of the Consulate
  • Establishment of the Directory
  • Estates-General Convened
  • Execution of Louis XVI
  • Execution of Marie Antoinette
  • Execution of Robespierre
  • Execution of the Girondins
  • Fall of Robespierre
  • Festival of the Supreme Being
  • Flight to Varennes
  • Great Fear
  • Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793
  • Law of 14 Frimaire
  • Law of 22 Prairial Enacted
  • Law of Suspects Enacted
  • Legislative Assembly Convened
  • Levee en Masse Declared
  • National Assembly Declared
  • National Convention Established
  • Reign of Terror Begins
  • Storming of the Bastille
  • Storming of the Tuileries Palace
  • Tennis Court Oath
  • The September Massacres
  • Thermidorian Reaction
  • Vendee Rebellion Begins
  • War Declared on Austria
  • Women's March on Versailles

Key Figures

  • Abbé Grégoire
  • Antoine Barnave
  • Antoine Lavoisier
  • Camille Desmoulins
  • Charlotte Corday
  • Condorcet
  • Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
  • Georges Couthon
  • Georges Danton
  • Gracchus Babeuf
  • Jacques Hébert
  • Jacques Necker
  • Jacques Roux
  • Jacques-Louis David
  • Jean-Baptiste Carrier
  • Jean-Lambert Tallien
  • Jean-Paul Marat
  • Jean-Sylvain Bailly
  • Joseph Fouché
  • Lafayette
  • Lazare Carnot
  • Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
  • Louis Philippe II
  • Louis XVI
  • Louis XVII
  • Madame de Staël
  • Madame du Barry
  • Madame Roland
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Maximilien Robespierre
  • Mirabeau
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Olympe de Gouges
  • Paul Barras
  • Philippe Buonarroti
  • Pierre Vergniaud
  • Thomas Paine

Political Ideas

  • Abolition of Slavery
  • Anti-clericalism
  • Citizenship
  • Civic Virtue
  • Civil Liberties
  • Collective Rights
  • Constitutional Monarchy
  • Constitutionalism
  • Dechristianization
  • Deism
  • Democracy
  • Economic Egalitarianism
  • Emancipation
  • Emancipation of the Jews
  • Enlightenment Philosophies
  • Equality
  • Equality Before the Law
  • Equality of Opportunity
  • Feminism
  • Fraternity
  • Freedom of Religion
  • Freedom of Speech
  • Freedom of the Press
  • General Will
  • Human Rights
  • Humanism
  • Individual Rights
  • Legal Equality
  • Liberty
  • Meritocracy
  • Nationalism
  • Natural Rights
  • Patriotism
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Public Education
  • Radicalism
  • Rationalism
  • Republicanism
  • Revolutionary Justice
  • Revolutionary Republicanism
  • Secular Humanism
  • Secularism
  • Separation of Powers
  • Social Contract
  • Sovereignty of the Nation
  • State Control of the Church
  • Universal Suffrage

Revolutionary Factors

  • Agricultural Failures
  • Blocked Social Mobility
  • Censorship and Repression
  • Corruption of the Aristocracy
  • Crisis of the Ancien Régime
  • Debt from Wars
  • Desire for Constitutional Government
  • Diamond Necklace Affair
  • Economic Hardship
  • Enlightenment Ideas
  • Extravagance of the Monarchy
  • Failure of Reforms
  • Failure of the Estates-General
  • Famine and Bread Shortages
  • Feudalism
  • Financial Crisis
  • Harsh Winters Leading to Crop Failures
  • Heavy Taxation on the Peasantry
  • Ineffective Governance
  • Ineffective Ministers
  • Inefficient Tax System
  • Inequality Before the Law
  • Inflation
  • Influence of Philosophes
  • Influence of the American Revolution
  • Lack of Political Representation
  • Oppression of the Third Estate
  • Population Growth
  • Privileges of the First and Second Estates
  • Regressive Taxation
  • Resentment of Church Privileges
  • Resentment of Lettres de Cachet
  • Resentment of the Seigneurial System
  • Resentment of the Tithe to the Church
  • Rise of the Bourgeoisie
  • Role of the Parlements
  • Social Stratification
  • Spread of Revolutionary Ideas through Pamphlets and Salons
  • Tax Exemptions for Nobility and Clergy
  • Unemployment among Urban Workers
  • Weak Leadership

Institutions, Government and Political Groups

  • Commission of Twelve
  • Committee of General Security
  • Committee of Public Instruction
  • Committee of Public Safety
  • Committee of Surveillance
  • Constitution of the Year III
  • Constitutional Committee
  • Consulate
  • Cordeliers Club
  • Council of Ancients
  • Council of Five Hundred
  • Council of State
  • Cult of Reason
  • Cult of the Supreme Being
  • Dantonists
  • Departments
  • Enragés
  • Estates-General
  • Exagérés
  • Federalists
  • Feuillants
  • General Assembly
  • Girondins
  • Hébertists
  • High Court
  • Indulgents
  • Jacobin Club
  • Legislative Assembly
  • Maraisards
  • Ministry of Police
  • Monarchiens
  • Montagnards
  • Municipal Councils
  • National Constituent Assembly
  • National Convention
  • National Guard
  • Paris Commune
  • Plain (Le Marais)
  • Prefectures
  • Revolutionary Armies
  • Revolutionary Committees
  • Revolutionary Surveillance Committees
  • Revolutionary Tribunal
  • Royalists
  • Sans-culottes
  • Sections of Paris
  • Society of 1789
  • Society of Revolutionary Republican Women
  • The Directory
  • Thermidorians
  • Tribunate
  • Ultras

Places of Importance

  • Bastille
  • Bordeaux
  • Café Procope
  • Carmelite Convent
  • Champ de Mars
  • Conciergerie Prison
  • Cordeliers Convent
  • Feuillants Convent
  • Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles
  • Hôtel de Ville
  • Jacobin Club (Dominican Monastery)
  • La Force Prison
  • Les Invalides
  • Luxembourg Palace
  • Lyon
  • Madeleine Cemetery
  • Menus-Plaisirs du Roi
  • Nantes
  • National Assembly Hall
  • Notre-Dame Cathedral
  • Palace of Versailles
  • Palais de Justice
  • Palais Royal
  • Place Dauphine
  • Place de Grève
  • Place de la Concorde
  • Place de la Révolution
  • Place Vendôme
  • Revolutionary Tribunal (Palais de Justice)
  • Rue Saint-Honoré
  • Temple Prison
  • Tuileries Palace
  • Varennes
  • Vendee Region

Revolutionary Symbols and Culture

  • Assignats
  • Ça Ira
  • Citizen Soldiers
  • Citizen Title
  • Civil Marriage and Divorce
  • Dechristianization Campaign
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
  • Festival of Unity and Indivisibility of the Republic
  • Goddess of Reason
  • Guillotine
  • Liberty Pole
  • Marianne
  • Metric System
  • National Anthem: La Marseillaise
  • Phrygian Cap
  • Red Liberty Cap
  • Revolutionary Art and Propaganda
  • Revolutionary Calendar
  • Revolutionary Cockade
  • Revolutionary Fashion
  • Revolutionary Festivals
  • Slogan: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
  • Tree of Liberty
  • Tricolor Flag

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