French Revolution
French Revolution posts walk a reader through the events from 1789 to 1799 in plain order. Articles cover the calling of the Estates-General, the storming of the Bastille on 14 July, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the women’s march on Versailles, the flight to Varennes, the September massacres, the trial and execution of Louis XVI in January 1793, the Terror under Robespierre, his fall in Thermidor, and the rise of the Directory that ended with Napoleon’s coup of 18 Brumaire. There are also short notes on the revolutionary calendar.
