French Revolution
Collection by Jennifer Gillespie
A ten year period of violent social and poltical upheaval that abolished the monarchy and transformed France into a republic
The Paris National Guard on its way to the Army (detail) by Léon Cogniet (1836)
France, Versailles, The French National Guard leaving to reach the Army by Léon Cogniet
LA FAYETTE (M.-J., Mis de). Procès-verbal de la confédération des Français, à Paris, le quatorze juillet mil sept-cent-quatre-vingt-dix. À Paris, Chez J.-R. Lottin, Imprimeur-Libraire ordinaire de la Ville, 1790, in-4° de 96 pp., broché, couverture
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Detail of David’s painting of the Tennis Court Oath, showing Jean-Sylvian Bailly (1789)
The Tennis Court Oath, 20th June 1789, detail of the group surrounding Bailly, 1791 by Jacques Louis David
The Celebration of the Federation, Champ de Mars, Paris (detail) by Charles Thevenin (1790)
French Revolutionary Cockades (1790)
Liberty Leading the People (detail) by Eugène Delacroix (1830)
An Allegory of the Revolution by Nicolas Henri Jeaurat de Bertry (1794)
Guillotined heads of Jacques Rene Hébert, Jean-Baptise Carrier, and Maximilien Robespierre
Propaganda poster representing the First French Republic (1793)
Louis XVI, showing post-guillotine condition
Taken from the actual death mask modeled by Madame Tussaud.
Ghourd containing Louis XVI’s blood, collected right after his execution (1793)
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1793)
Young, idealistic and prone to violence, Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just embodied the spirit of the French Revolution. He was devoured by the Terror he helped unleash.