The French Revolution
Search and browse records covering the French Revolution from the final years of the ancien régime through the financial crisis of the monarchy, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Estates General, the rise of the National Assembly, the Tennis Court Oath, the storming of the Bastille, the abolition of feudal privileges, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, revolutionary political clubs, war, the fall of the monarchy, the Republic, Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety, the Reign of Terror, Thermidor, the Directory and the political rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Use the existing timeline and the year, month, people, event, place and keyword filters to move through the archive and isolate individual people, episodes, locations and phases of the Revolution.
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654 records (80%) fall between 1789 and 1794. A further 150 records extend the archive through the Directory era to 1799.
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