Brief description of French Revolution through pictures.

1. The French Revolution
from 1789-1799
through pictures and prints
which represent
role of the middle class

2. The Age of Enlightenment

3. Nobility and clergy take advantage of peasants

4. Third Estate crushed by the heavy levies imposed

5. Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette

6. Nobility enjoying a stag hunt

7. Forming a budget for France

8. The Great Fear

9. The Three Estates on the way to Versailles

14. The Marquis de Lafayette

15. Oath of the Tennis Court

16. Three Estates hammer out a
constitution for France

17. Fall of the Bastille

20. Signing the Declaration of Rights

22. March to Versailles

23. Jacobin Clubs

28. France at war with Europe

29. September Massacre

31. Execution of Marie Antoinette

32. Reign of Terror

34. Robespierre

35. The five headed Directory

36. Napoleon’s coup d’ etat
Fall of Directory