Enlightenment during
the French Revolution
Key people of the Revolutionary Enlightenment
- Robes Pierre
- Jean-Paul Marat
- René Descartes
- Denis Diderot
All Revolutionary and radical thinkers that had a vision for a stronger, better France.
- Enlightenment was an a period in which new economic, social, political, and religious ideas were being created and expressed.
- France was the birthplace of many enlightenment thinkers such as René Descartes, Voltaire, the baron de Montesquieu, and Denis Diderot.
Why is it important?
- It raised a new generation of ideas that questioned unfair authority and supported complete freedom.
Born: 1743 in Boudry, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Died: 1793 . Was assassinated by Charlotte Corday.
- Aligned himself with freemasonry
- He was famous for his newspaper L'Ami du peuple, which became known for its violent tone. After his assassination he became enshrined as one of the popular heroes of the Revolution.
His role in the revolution was his open attacks on the French Monarchy and political moderates in his newspaper.
He contributed also to the violence that would characterize the Revolution after 1792, and achieved the purging of the moderate Girondins from the government, leading to formation of the Jacobin regime.
Interesting facts:
- He was a physician
- His scientific works on fire, light, and electricity gained the attention of Benjamin Franklin.
- Born: 1758
- Died: 1794 . Beheaded by the Guillotine.
He was famous for being a leading member of the Mountain wing of the Jacobin party, and for being the Committee of Public Safety .
During the revolution, as head of the the Committee of Public Safety , he began the "Reign of Terror" in which thousands of people were executed and many thousands more imprisoned for being accused of Anti-revolutionary actions.
Name given to the return of the Bourbon dynasty to the throne of France in 1814 .
Began after the creation in 1793 of the Committee of Public Safety.
Was one of the most decisive naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
A scandal that implicated Marie Antoinette and the court of Louis XVI in 1785 and contributed to the growing dissatisfaction with royalty that resulted in the French Revolution.
Below the king came the clergy, or the First Estate; then the nobles, or the Second Estate; and finally the remaining French subjects, or the Third Estate.
Built by King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century to demonstrate the wealth and power of France, even though they were completely broke after its construction.
The 3 Estates
September Massacre
September 2 to September 6, 1792
Consisted of a wave of killings in Paris during the French Revolution.
Battle of the Nile
Citations Page
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Diamond Necklace Affair
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Bourbon Restoration
The main advocate of the reign of terror was Maximilien Robespierre.
Jean-Paul Marat
Maximilien-Marie-Isadore de Robespierre
Versailles