IMAGES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

MAP OF WESTERN EUROPE

3 ESTATES

3 ESTATES

LIFE FOR THE POOREST OF THE 3RD ESTATE

KING LOUIS XVI ABSOLUTE MONARCH

QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE, FROM AUSTRIA

KING LOUIS, QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE AND NOBLES

MEETING OF THE ESTATES GENERAL, 20 JUNE 1789

Meeting of the Third Estate to write a Constitution, 1789

American Declaration of Independence, 1776

SAME PURPOSE, DIFFERENT FEELING?

1.What is the Third Estate?Everything.

2. What has it been up to now in the political order?

Nothing.3. What does it ask?

To become something.

EMMANUEL JOSEPH SIEYES WROTE A PAMPHLET WHICH ASKED 3

QUESTIONS:

MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS OF REVOLUTION

STORMING THE BASTILLE 14 JULY 1789

EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI1793

GUILLOTINE

REIGN OF TERROR: EVERYONE IS IN DANGER OF BEING KILLED

1793-1794

GUILLOTINE: INVENTION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

BEHEADINGS (TO CUT OFF THE HEAD) WAS A PUBLIC

SPECTACLE

“DEATH OF MARAT”

TRUE “REVOLUTION”: NAPOLEON IS DECLARED EMPEROR 1804

MODERN REVOLUTION?