French Revolution Figures (7)

  • Jacques Necker

    Jacques Necker
    Jacques Necker was a Banker and statesman. necker was important because He implemented a rigorous economic policy reducing the crown's expenditure and imposing structural reforms on the way the royal finances.
  • Jean-Paul Marot

    Jean-Paul Marot
    Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards, and newspapers. he was important because his advocacy for the execution of counterrevolutionaries earned him many enemies.
  • Emmanuel-Josephy Sieyes

    Emmanuel-Josephy Sieyes
    was a French Roman Catholic, clergyman, and political writer who was the chief political theorist of the French Revolution. Emmanuel was important because the concept of popular sovereignty guided the National Assembly in its struggle against the monarchy and nobility during the opening months of the French Revolution.
  • Olympe de Gouges

    Olympe de Gouges
    Olympe was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism. she was important because she was the first person to fight for women's rights.
  • Louis XVI

    Louis XVI
    Louis XVI was the last Bourbon king of France who was executed in 1793 for treason.he was very important because he will forever be associated with the outbreak of the French Revolution and the end of Versailles royal era.
  • Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France.she was important because she was associated with the decline of the french monarchy.
  • Marquis de Lafayette

    Marquis de Lafayette
    He worked with Thomas Jefferson he also helped write the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizen, the first step toward a constitution for the Republic of France helping launch the French Revolution.
  • Maximilien Robespierre

    Maximilien Robespierre
    Robespierre was a radical democrat and a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789. he also encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution.
  • Georges Danton

    Georges Danton
    was a French lawyer and a leading figure in the French Revolution. he was important because he was responsible for inciting the September Massacres.
  • Charlotte Corday

    Charlotte Corday
    she was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. she was important because she assassinated Jean
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    Napoleon Bonaparte
    Bonaparte was a French emperor and military commander who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars he was important because one of the most successful generals of the French revolutionary armies.
  • Jacobins

    Jacobins
    The Jacobins were formed to create a strong government that could deal with the needs of war, economic chaos
  • Sans-culottes

    Sans-culottes
    he was important because he served as the driving popular force behind the revolution.