TOPIC 3: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

How did the French Revolution lay the foundations for modern democracies?

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A sculpture of Louis XIV by Gianlorenzo Bernini

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Georges Danton was a leading force in the French Revolution.

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The Palace of Versailles

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The Hall of Mirrors in thePalace of Versailles

Louis XVI in 1777

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A member of the lower clergyA member of the upper clergy

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The Swing (circa 1760) shows a young man and woman of the French nobility.

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A painting called Peasant couple eating, 1620

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The Stone Breakers, from 1849, was painted after the revolution but shows similar working conditions as those experienced by peasants and serfs before the revolution.

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A painting of Queen Marie Antoinette from 1786

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Voltaire Denis Diderot

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Montesquieu

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The meeting of the Estates-General in 1789 at Versailles

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Maximilien Robespierre was a young idealistic lawyer and a deputy of the Third Estate at the Estates-General.

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A watercolour painting called The Storming of the Bastillepainted in 1789

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General Marie-Josephe Lafayette advocatedgradual change and a constitutional monarchy.

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The 1789 Women’s March on Versailles

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Sans culottes

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The Declaration of Pillnitz was issued at Pillnitz Castle by the Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria, Leopold II, and Frederick William II of

Prussia.

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The painting First Consul Bonaparte,circa 1802

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The island of Hispaniola is one of the Caribbean Islands, which lie between North and South America.

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Bahamas

HispaniolaPuerto Rico

Lesser Antilles

Jamaica

Cuba

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Hispaniola in 1790 was divided into the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo.

Border between French and Spanish colonies

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A portrait of Toussaint from a modern Haitian banknote

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All of Hispaniola became the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1801.

1804

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Haiti

A French colony

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An 1845 engraving called The Battle of Vertières, which was a battle fought in 1803 just before the French withdrew

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Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria visiting Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette, 1775–1777

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An illustration from 1798 showing the death of Louis XVI of France

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A British cartoon of Napoleon produced by J. Gillray in 1803

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An engraving of Toussaint L’Ouverture from1802

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