1793 Collection (page 9)

Massacres at Lyon
Six thousand people are slaughtered by revolutionary forces when they finally take Lyon, which has resisted the extremist activities of the Paris authorities

Bishop Abdicates
Gobel, 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 Condemned
The revolutionary tribunal arrests 22 Girondins and condemns them to the guillotine

Noble Privileges
Coal-sellers and nobles alike give up their privileges and insignia, perceived as politically incorrect relics of the ancien regime

Leaders of the Terror
The 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 Defeat
The Royalist forces are forced to withdraw across the Loire

Vendee Noyades
Carrier 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 - 5
The Vendeans besiege Granville

Defiance at Lyon - 3
When 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 : Passport
Facsimile 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 Vandalised
Hatred 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 : Catholics
The 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 Triumph
In a coup involving armed force, the Montagnard extremists out-manoeuvre the more moderate Girondins : the events will usher in the Reign of Terror

Revolutionary Calendar
Anticipating 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 Being
The 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 Gathering
The Girondins meet at madame Rolands : moderate revolutionaries, many of them will be victims of the Reign of Terror, including madame Roland herself

Committee Public Safety
This 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 & Bust
MARIE ANTOINETTE with a bust of her husband

Marie Antoinette & Kids
MARIE ANTOINETTE receives her children - Le Dauphin, Madame Royale and le duc de Normandie

Marie Antoinette Reads
MARIE ANTOINETTE holding a book

Marie Antoinette Sits
MARIE ANTOINETTE disturbed at her reading

Testament of Louis XVI
The testament of Louis XVI

Vendee War - 3
A Breton royalist is arrested by the revolutionaries. Date: circa 1793

French Rev Loot Churches
French Revolutionaries loot the churches and parade through the streets with religious trappings

Washington, Mason
George 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 Murray
JOHN MURRAY founder of the noted publishing house

Charles James Fox / Slough
CHARLES JAMES FOX Fox in trouble; The Slough of Despond

Comtesse Du Barry
JEANNE BECU, COMTESSE DU BARRY Paris shopgirl who became mistress to Louis XV but was guillotined during the Revolution

Felicia Hemans
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS writer with her autograph

French Retreat 1795
In the face of the Allies attack, the French are forced to retreat in Flanders

French at Toulon
The French attack TOULON by land when it is evacuated by the English fleet

French in Netherlands
Invading 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 Majus
Nasturtium, O Indian Cress

Plants / Cypripedium Album
White-Petalled Ladys Slipper

Agrostemma Coronaria
Corn-Cockle or Rose-Cockle

Browallia Americana
also known as BROWALLIA ELATA, or TALL BROWALLIA

Armand Gensonne
ARMAND GENSONNE French revolutionary (Girondist)

P V Vergniaud
PIERRE VICTURNIEN VERGNIAUD French revolutionary statesman (Girondist)

Princesse De Polignac
YOLANDE MARTINE GABRIELLE DE POLASTRON, duchesse de POLIGNAC - ambitious and scheming aristocrat, friend of Marie Antoinette and fellow victim of the guillotine

Family / Hamilton / 1793
A family domestic scene in Britain. The children read and play musical instruments

Frenchwomen 1793
Two women of revolutionary Paris

Man with Eye-Glass
A man of revolutionary Paris peers scornfully through his eyeglass : a hundred years later he will sport an equally affected monocle

Marie Antoinette
MARIE ANTOINETTE, queen of France - engraved from a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun done a year before the revolution

Frenchwoman 1793
The simple but graceful style favoured by ladies during the Revolutionary period

Francis Bond Head
SIR FRANCIS BOND HEAD Statesman and administrator, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada. Date: 1793 - 1875

Charles Bonnet / Border
CHARLES BONNET Swiss naturalist and philosopher surrounded by a decorative border made up of plants and animals - the chain of nature

Dianthus Chinensis
CHINA PINK

Goldoni / Comm Dell arte
CARLO GOLDONI Six scenes celebrating his reform of Italian comedy in the style of Moliere, thereby superseding the older style commedia dell arte

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