french rev

When revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of paris.

A period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the third estate.

Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793.

Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne after allied Austrian, Prussian and Russian forces vanquished his army and occupied Paris. Banished into exile on Elba, he retired less than a year later to challenge the weak Bourbon king who had replaced him..

When revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of paris.

A period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the third estate.

Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793.

Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne after allied Austrian, Prussian and Russian forces vanquished his army and occupied Paris. Banished into exile on Elba, he retired less than a year later to challenge the weak Bourbon king who had replaced him..