Faces Of The French Revolution

  • The great feat

    The great feat
    a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
  • Conservative republic

    Conservative republic
    It witnessed the collapse of the monarchy, the establishment of the First French Republic and culminated in the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the beginning of the Napoleonic era.
  • Storming of bastille

    Storming of bastille
    The people of France took the fortress of the Bastille, beginning one of the most important revolutions in history.
  • Constitution of 1791

    Constitution of 1791
    French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting.
  • Constitution (social democracy)

    Constitution (social democracy)
    The Constitution of 1793 , also known as the Constitution of the Year I or the Montagnard Constitution, was the second constitution ratified for use during the French Revolution under the First Republic.
    Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
  • Social republic

    Social republic
    was the name given to a series of parliamentary and republican regimes that occurred between September 21, 1792 and May 18, 1804, during the French Revolution.
  • Constitutional monarchy

    Constitutional monarchy
    The Kingdom of France (the remnant of the preceding absolutist Kingdom of France) was a constitutional monarchy that governed France from 3 September 1791 until 21 September 1792, when this constitutional monarchy was succeeded by the French First Republic.
  • Storming of tuileries palace

    Storming of tuileries palace
    The sans-culottes stormed the Tuileries Palace. That attack was very reminiscent of the great military sieges in history. At that time, the king had made his opposition to the French Revolution clear and it was known that he was trying by all means to make it fail.
  • Execution of louis XVI

    Execution of louis XVI
    What was the execution of Louis XVI like?
    After an attempted escape from the city of Paris, he was arrested in Varennes, taken back to the French capital and suspended from his duties. After the assault on the Tuileries palace where he lived at the time, he was arrested, prosecuted and finally guillotined.
  • Fall of the jacobins

    Fall of the jacobins
    The Jacobin government's downfall was caused by three factors.
    -First, there was the government, which was founded on radical principles and had imposed a "rule of terror."
    -Second, those who disagreed with the King's method.s were guilloyed and executed.
    -Finally, he ordered the churches to be closed down
  • People in the begin to return

    People in the begin to return
    People in the begin to return What happen during the people in exile begin return?
    The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile is the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon, the capital city of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, following their defeat in the Jewish–Babylonian War and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in ...
  • Coup d'etat

    Coup d'etat
    General Napoleon Bonaparte took power, thus ending the Directory and the Revolution.
  • Napoleon emperor

    Napoleon emperor
    Napoleon carried out a coup d'état that placed him at the head of the Directory, the organization in charge of the French government. Three years later, he became consul for life, and a year later he named himself emperor.
  • The battle of austerlitz

    The battle of austerlitz
    The Battle of Austerlitz, overwhelming victory on December 2, 1805 of the Napoleonic army against the forces of the Russian-Austrian coalition.
  • spanish war of independence

    spanish war of independence
    In May 1808, the French invasion of Spanish territory led to the imposition, by Napoleon Bonaparte, of a replacement for the Spanish King Ferdinand VII, who had to abdicate, leaving the royal seat in the hands of his brother Joseph Bonaparte.
  • the Russia campaign

    the Russia campaign
    The Russian divisions attacked and crushed the part of the French Army that had not yet crossed the river. During the following weeks, the remnants of the Grande Armée were further decimated, and on December 14, 1812, they were definitively expelled from Russian territory by crossing the Niemen River.
  • Waterloo

    Waterloo
    The French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the British and Prussian armies in the War of Waterloo. The defeat ended the 23-year war between France and the European allied states.
  • battle of leipzig

    battle of leipzig
    The Battle of Leipzig (October 16 to 19, 1813), also called the Battle of Nations, was the largest armed confrontation of all the Napoleonic Wars and the most important battle lost by Napoleon Bonaparte. Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Decisive victory of the Sixth Coalition.