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The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris houses some 30,000 engravings from the time of the French Revolution. Libraries in the United States have many thousands of them too. Museums all over France have material collections of crockery, ribbons, flags, swords, and clothing, all of which could serve as emblems of revolution. The Museum of the French Revolution in Vizille, France, has the most systematic and extensive of these collections.

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The revolutionary government wanted to spread their messages about how the government should be run and they did this through propaganda, always trying for people to see it everyday of their lives.

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Scholars continue to be interested in the causes, course, and legacy of the French Revolution, but they have a wider view of it: not only do they seek its meaning in a broader range of events and activities, in the traditional arenas of diplomacy and high politics as well as in the newer ones of festivals, symbols, engravings, and songs.

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"What remains most alive in the original spirit of the Revolution is in...literature...[T]he only Frenchmen who today can be connected by a kind of esprit de corps to their fathers are the men of letters." This shows that people kept everything together and wrote.

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The French Revolution sparked many other revolutions to occur like Mexico in 1810 and Central and South America gained independence from Spain and Portugal in the 1820s.

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Because of the different kinds of government people believed in in France, there had been fights throughout the streets and in 1871, 20,000 people died from fighting amongst the streets

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Founders of the communist government, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, believed that the French Revolution held very important for the future on history and communism.

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He linked together religion and nativism and insisted that France to become more devout and more nationalistic

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He was a theorist of "crowd" behavior which he believed that that the French Revolution promoted violence towards your people and epitomized the irrational savagery of the killings.

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Because the Revolution, religion was taken away from the people because there should be no religion while ruling a state. The fundamental secularism of the revolutionary project offended those who preferred that state power be dependent on religious authority.

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Before 1789, the "anti-philosopher" had decried Enlightenment thinking/ Burke and others quickly denounced the Revolution itself, particularly the potential for violence.

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This belief defended the right of the nation to resist French control. Nationalists turned their ire on foreign rulers such as the Austrians in Italy, the Russians in Poland, and others. An Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini believed that nationalism should be linked to revolutionary and allied to defend the interest of the poor.

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In 1792, the revolutionaries created a republic that they believed so strongly in that they would challenge the monarchist. Some of the believers preferred a government directed by the elite. People who believed in conservatism were opposed to the Republic, saying that these doctrines of social or political change were dangerous innovations.

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In 1789, the Revolutionaries created ideologies that is a defined doctrine about the best form of social and political organization.

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As a French aristocrat, he did not believe in the Revolution and denounced the Jacobins as "infuriated men" who had erected "a thousand sanguinary guillotines" in all the villages and towns of France.

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He was a German philosopher who was enthused and also nervous about what the Revolution would bring. He believed in the power of the notion of right.

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John Adams believed what Burke did. He expressed his feelings earlier than many people did. He represented the ideas of the Republican Party that he believed in the revolution but became somewhat fearful when the Reign of Terror occurred.

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens

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This was France's declaration which seemed to have direct relationship to America's Declaration of Independence. This was due to Thomas Jefferson staying in France at the time it was written and gave ideas to the legislators through the Marquis de Lafayette.

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She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women which said that women should have the equal education that the men have, this leading to controversy throughout Europe about women's rights.

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Thomas Pain, an English author, said that good government depended on establishing a constitution that guaranteed the natural rights of man. Because he agreed with Enlightenment principles in government, he was added onto the National Convention in France which he knew little about how to even speak French.

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Burke was a member of the British Parliament who believed that the reliance of the revolutionaries rely on reason as the sole standard of government. He was one of the first people who brought up debate over the French Revolution. He believed little in the lower class which raised a lot of distress in Great Britain.

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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven"
This was written by an English poet William Wordsworth who was very happy that the French Revolution took place and overthrew the government. The Revolution was celebrated by songs, engravings, poems, paintings, and music.

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May 5, 1789, the Estates General met in Versailles. This was the start of the revolution because the three estates, the clergy, the nobles, and the middle class/peasants. The king had finally accepted that he needed help to rule the kingdom and let many different people of different social classes have opinion in the government.