People of the French Revolution by Gavin Stricklin

louis XVI (16th)

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:27:54 UTC

At the outset of the revolution, Louis XVI adopted a pro-reform stance. But the King was indecisive and reluctive to ratify the texts proclaiming the abolition of privileges and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, promulgated short after the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789.

Marie Antoinette

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:27:59 UTC

Her rejection of reform provoked unrest and her policy of court resistance to the progress to the French Revolution finally led to the overthrow of the monarchy.

Marquise du Lafayette

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:28:03 UTC

Lafayette helped launch the French Revolution in 1789. He served in the national assembly and drafted the declaration of the rights of man. He proudly sent the key to the bastille to Washington, who was serving as the president of the United States.

Maximillion Robspierre

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:28:06 UTC

Maximilien Robespierre was the leader of the French Revolution best known for spearheading the Reign of Terror. He was an important member of the Jacobin political party. Robespierre had noble goals for the French Revolution, including, Liberty for all.

Jacques Necker

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:28:09 UTC

Jacques Necker was finance minister to King Louis XVI of France, known for making French finances public with his Compte Rendu au Roi and for overseeing the meeting of the Estate-General, the opening event of the French Revolution.

Sans-culottes

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:28:13 UTC

Throughout the revolution, the sans-culottes provided the principal support behind the more radical and anti-bourgeoisie factions of the Paris Commune, such as the enrages and the Hebertists, and were led by populist revolutionaries such as Jacques Roux and Jacques Hebert.

Napoleon Bonaparte

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:28:15 UTC

He supported the French Revolution in 1789, and promoted it cause in Corsica. He rose rapidly through the ranks after winning the siege of Toulon in 1793 and defeating royalist insurgents in Paris on 13 Vendemiaire in 1795.

Jacobins

strickling153 — 2025-01-17 15:28:19 UTC

Once in power, the Jacobins overthrew the Ancien Regime and successfully defended the Revolution from the military defeat. they consolidated republicanism in France and contributed greatly to the secularism and the sense of nationhood that have marked all French republican regimes to this day.