the french revolution. louis xv r. 1715-1774 duke of orléans regent to louis xv
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The French Revolution
Louis XVLouis XV
r. 1715-r. 1715-17741774
Duke of OrlDuke of Orlééansans
Regent to Regent to Louis XVLouis XV
Cardinal Cardinal FleuryFleury
Chief Chief Minister Minister
under Louis under Louis XVXV
Louis XVI
r. 1774-1792
Jacques Jacques NeckerNecker
Finance Finance minister minister to Louis to Louis
XVIXVI
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 The Marquis de de
LafayetteLafayette
1757-18341757-1834
French Tri-Color National French Tri-Color National FlagFlag
The The Declaration of Declaration of the Rights of the Rights of
ManMan
The Women March on The Women March on VersaillesVersailles
The Return of the Royal Family to The Return of the Royal Family to ParisParis
Portrait of Marie
Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
and Children
The Hamlet at Versailles
Arrest of royal family at Varennes: June, 1791
83 Departements83 Departements
Olympe de Olympe de GougesGouges
1748-1793 1748-1793
Emperor Emperor Leopold II of Leopold II of
AustriaAustria
Frederick Frederick William II of William II of
PrussiaPrussia
Massacre of the Swiss Guards
September Massacre
A ParisianSans-Culottes
Maximilien Robespierre
1758-1794
Georges Danton
1759-1794
Jean-PaulJean-PaulMaratMarat
1743-17931743-1793
The Execution of Louis XVI
Edmund Edmund BurkeBurke
Author of Author of Reflections Reflections
on the on the Revolutions Revolutions in Francein France
(1790)(1790)
William Pitt the William Pitt the YoungerYounger
PM 1783-1801 PM 1783-1801 1804-18061804-1806
Vendée: revolt against the Convention (1793)
The Reign of TerrorThe Reign of Terror
Georges Danton
1759-1794
Maximilien Robespierre
1758-1794
The GuillotineThe Guillotine
Olympe de Olympe de GougesGouges
1748-1793 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 BeingFestival of the Supreme Being