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Jacques Necker
implemented a rigorous economic policy, reducing the crown's expenditure and imposing structural reforms on the way the royal finances were administered. -
Jean-Paul Marot
French revolutionary, famously murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday in 1793 -
Emmanuel-Josephy Sieyes
overthrew the Directory, allowing the popular military leader Napoleon to seize power in the coup of 18 Brumaire -
Olympe De Gouges
advocated for all those she saw as under represented including orphaned children, and women -
Louis XVI
the last Bourbon king of France who was executed in 1793 for treason -
Marie Antoinette
vivacious, outgoing, and bold, a social butterfly who loved gambling, partying and extravagant fashions. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
one of the most successful generals of the French revolutionary armies -
calling of the estates-general
a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems -
attack on the bastille
France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. -
great fear
The Great Fear was a general panic that took place between 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring -
execution of louis XVI
Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. -
national convention was formed
Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death -
reign of terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety -
formation of the national assembly
members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, vowing “not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.” It was a pivotal event in the early -
napoleon invades russia
The French invasion of Russia, also known as Russian campaign and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom