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Massacres at LyonSix thousand people are slaughtered by revolutionary forces when they finally take Lyon, which has resisted the extremist activities of the Paris authorities
Bishop AbdicatesGobel, bishop of Paris, and 13 of his vicars abdicate at the request of the Commune : but this doesn t save him, he will be guillotined in April 1794
Girondins CondemnedThe revolutionary tribunal arrests 22 Girondins and condemns them to the guillotine
Noble PrivilegesCoal-sellers and nobles alike give up their privileges and insignia, perceived as politically incorrect relics of the ancien regime
Leaders of the TerrorThe three principals of the Montagnard faction - Robespierre, Danton and Marat - meet in the cabaret de la rue de Paon : for a while they wield dictatorial power
Vendee DefeatThe Royalist forces are forced to withdraw across the Loire
Vendee NoyadesCarrier is the most ruthless of revolutionary commanders : at Nantes he orders royalist prisoners to be thrown into the river - les noyades (drownings) de la Loire
Vendee War - 5The Vendeans besiege Granville
Defiance at Lyon - 3When the revolutionary army capture Lyon, which has defied the Paris government, Collot d Herbois carries out a massive destruction of property in the city
Vendee : PassportFacsimile of a passport issued at Chollet (Cholet) by the royalists in the Vendee by the commanders of the catholic and royal armies of the Breton resistance
Royal Graves VandalisedHatred of the ancien regime is carried to extremes when vandals break into the crypt at Saint-Denis, take the royal corpses from their coffins and throw them in a common ditch
Vendee : CatholicsThe Vendee struggle is as much religious as political : the Catholic clergy are harassed by the government and forced to hold clandestine masses in the countryside
Montagnards TriumphIn a coup involving armed force, the Montagnard extremists out-manoeuvre the more moderate Girondins : the events will usher in the Reign of Terror
Revolutionary CalendarAnticipating the new calendar devised by deputy Romme, which will come into force on 10 October, the citizens of Arras stage a grand procession in its honour
Festival Supreme BeingThe Revolution replaces traditional religion with its own theology, offering a Supreme Being who provides the citizen with a suitable replacement for his/her former beliefs
Girondin GatheringThe Girondins meet at madame Rolands : moderate revolutionaries, many of them will be victims of the Reign of Terror, including madame Roland herself
Committee Public SafetyThis committee is invested by the Convention with almost dictatorial power : made up of extremists such as Danton and Robespierre, it becomes an instrument of terror
Marie Antoinette & BustMARIE ANTOINETTE with a bust of her husband
Marie Antoinette & KidsMARIE ANTOINETTE receives her children - Le Dauphin, Madame Royale and le duc de Normandie
Marie Antoinette ReadsMARIE ANTOINETTE holding a book
Marie Antoinette SitsMARIE ANTOINETTE disturbed at her reading
Testament of Louis XVIThe testament of Louis XVI
Vendee War - 3A Breton royalist is arrested by the revolutionaries. Date: circa 1793
French Rev Loot ChurchesFrench Revolutionaries loot the churches and parade through the streets with religious trappings
Washington, MasonGeorge Washington, President of the USA, presides at the altar of his Lodge while planning the laying of the corner stone of the Capitol Building, Washington
John MurrayJOHN MURRAY founder of the noted publishing house
Charles James Fox / SloughCHARLES JAMES FOX Fox in trouble; The Slough of Despond
Comtesse Du BarryJEANNE BECU, COMTESSE DU BARRY Paris shopgirl who became mistress to Louis XV but was guillotined during the Revolution
Felicia HemansFELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS writer with her autograph
French Retreat 1795In the face of the Allies attack, the French are forced to retreat in Flanders
French at ToulonThe French attack TOULON by land when it is evacuated by the English fleet
French in NetherlandsInvading the Low Countries, the French bombard WILLEMSTAD from their artillery battery on Hel-plaats : a fine view of cannon and a mortar in action
Plants / Tropaeolum MajusNasturtium, O Indian Cress
Plants / Cypripedium AlbumWhite-Petalled Ladys Slipper
Agrostemma CoronariaCorn-Cockle or Rose-Cockle
Browallia Americanaalso known as BROWALLIA ELATA, or TALL BROWALLIA
Armand GensonneARMAND GENSONNE French revolutionary (Girondist)
P V VergniaudPIERRE VICTURNIEN VERGNIAUD French revolutionary statesman (Girondist)
Princesse De PolignacYOLANDE MARTINE GABRIELLE DE POLASTRON, duchesse de POLIGNAC - ambitious and scheming aristocrat, friend of Marie Antoinette and fellow victim of the guillotine
Family / Hamilton / 1793A family domestic scene in Britain. The children read and play musical instruments
Frenchwomen 1793Two women of revolutionary Paris
Man with Eye-GlassA man of revolutionary Paris peers scornfully through his eyeglass : a hundred years later he will sport an equally affected monocle
Marie AntoinetteMARIE ANTOINETTE, queen of France - engraved from a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun done a year before the revolution
Frenchwoman 1793The simple but graceful style favoured by ladies during the Revolutionary period
Francis Bond HeadSIR FRANCIS BOND HEAD Statesman and administrator, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada. Date: 1793 - 1875
Charles Bonnet / BorderCHARLES BONNET Swiss naturalist and philosopher surrounded by a decorative border made up of plants and animals - the chain of nature
Dianthus ChinensisCHINA PINK
Goldoni / Comm Dell arteCARLO GOLDONI Six scenes celebrating his reform of Italian comedy in the style of Moliere, thereby superseding the older style commedia dell arte