Revolution Collection (page 21)

Federation Celebrated 3
On the Champ de Mars, Parisians celebrate the Fete de la Federation, marking the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. Date: 14 July 1790

Women at Versailles 3
The market-women of Paris march to Versailles to demand bread from the king. (And no, Marie Antoinette will NOT say let them eat cake... Date: 5 October 1789

Women at Versailles 5
Louis, who has been hunting, hurries back to the chateau at Versailles where he meets with the market-women of Paris and listens to their grievances. Date: 6 October 1789

Civics at Notre-Dame
Civic dignitaries go to Notre- Dame, Paris, no doubt trusting that God will sort out their difficulties. Date: 16 July 1789

Camille Desmoulins 1
At the Palais Royal, the usual Sunday afternoon crowd are harangued by a young lawyer who rouses them to action with an impassioned speech. Date: 12 July 1789

Gunpowder Refused
Saint-Mery, president of the Electors of Paris, refuses to let the mob seize gunpowder : after these exciting events, he will end his days as a bookseller in Philadelphia. Date: circa 14 July 1789

Delegates at Versailles
The delegates take their oath at the National Assembly held in the salle des Menus Plaisirs du Roi at Versailles. Date: 17 June 1789

Third Estate Rained On
At the session of the Etats- generaux, delegates of the troisieme etat have to wait outside in the rain while the clergy and nobility take their seats : they are not pleased. Date: 23 June 1789

Guards Freed
Guards who had been confined in the prison of l Abbaye for indiscipline are liberated by the people. Date: 30 June 1789

Deputies to Tennis Court
The deputies of the troisieme etat (third estate) are locked out of their meeting hall, so they adjourn to a tennis court, conveniently close at hand. Date: 20 June 1789

Bastille Demolition Plan
Five years before the Revolution, it is proposed to demolish the Bastille prison and replace it with a public square named for Louis XVI. It could have changed history ! Date: 1784

General D alton
Satire on general d Alton, who suppresses ruthlessly those Flemish citizens who are foolish enough to sympathise with the French Revolution. Date: circa 1790

Ambassadors Arrested
French ambassadors are arrested at Novale. Date: 25 July 1793

Montagnards Triumph 2
In a coup involving guns and troops, the Montagnard extremists out-manoeuvre the more moderate Girondins : the events will usher in the Reign of Terror. Date: 2 June 1793

Jean-Baptiste Treilhard
JEAN-BAPTISTE TREILHARD French statesman, prominent during the Revolution and in Napoleons administration. Date: 1742 - 1810

Petion De Villeneuve
JEROME PETION de VILLENEUVE French statesman of the Revolution and one of its many victims. Date: 1756 - 1794

Pierre Vergniaud
PIERRE VICTURNIEN VERGNIAUD French revolutionary statesman, victime de la revolution Date: 1753 - 1793

Charles Sinclair
CHARLES SINCLAIR Scottish sympathiser with the French Revolution, delegate to the British Convention. Date: circa 1794

William Hale White
WILLIAM HALE WHITE writer as MARK RUTHERFORD author of novels etc, such as The revolution in Tanners Lane and Miriams schooling. Date: 1831 - 1913

Duc Orleans Egalite
LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH, duc d ORLEANS - sympathised with the Revolution and changed name to Philippe Egalite, but this did not save him from the guillotine. Date: 1747 - 1793

Duc D orleans Egalite
LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH, duc d ORLEANS, French soldier, sympathised with Revolution, took name PHILIPPE EGALITE but guillotined none the less : father of Louis-Philippe. Date: 1747 - 1793

Jacques Necker Profile
JACQUES NECKER Swiss-born French financier and statesman, whose unadopted reform proposals might have prevented the Revolution. Date: 1732 - 1804

Francois Montesquiou
FRANCOIS MARC ANTOINE FEZENZAC de MONTESQUIOU French statesman from Paris, president of the Assemblee Nationale 1790, managed to survive the Revolution. Date: 1757 - 1832

Albert Maurin
ALBERT MAURIN French historian of the Revolution Date: CIRCA 1840

LA Reveilliere-Lepeaux
LOUIS MARIE de LAREVELLIERE- LEPEAUX (or Lepaux) French statesman, during and after the Revolution : depicted here as a member of the Directoire. Date: 1753 - 1824

Jean-Baptiste Lindet
JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBERT LINDET French lawyer and revolution- ary statesman, accused by his enemies but acquitted in 1797 thanks to friends who respected his moderation. Date: 1743 - 1823

General Charles Lee
CHARLES LEE - English-born officer in the Continental Army of the American revolution, whose dubious conduct led to dismissal. Date: 1731 - 1782

Cochon De Lapparent
CHARLES, comte de COCHON DE LAPPARENT French statesman during the Revolution and later. Date: 1750 - 1825

Lally-Tolendal - 1
TROPHIME GERARD, marquis de LALLY-TOLENDAL French statesman during and after the revolution. Date: 1751 - 1830

Lally-Tolendal - 2
TROPHIME GERARD, marquis de LALLY-TOLENDAL French statesman during and after the revolution. with his autograph Date: 1751 - 1830

Caroline Harrison
CAROLINE LAVINIA SCOTT HARRISON, wife of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison; she was one of the founding Daughters of the American Revolution. Date: 1832 - 1892

Repeating Pattern - French girl in Tricolore scarf / hat (green background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

Sun Yat Sen and two cohorts - Chinese
Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) - Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China. Pictured with two of his colleagues Tang Shaoyi (1863-1938) and Wu Tingfang (1842-1922)

The Electric Tram is Coming! A warning to pedestrians (in danger of being run down), horses (packed off to the slaughterhouse)

New Constitution following the Young Turk Revolution
Souvenir Postcard celebrating the new Constitution established after the Young Turk Revolution of July 3rd, 1908. Date: 1908

Paris, France - La Colonne de Juillet, Place de la Bastille. A monumental column commemorating the Revoluton of 1830. Built between 1835 and 1840. Date: circa 1900

Belgium - Centenary of Quatre Glorieuses in 1930
Photographic Montage postcard centering on The Congress Column in Brussels, Belgium. The card commemoration the centenary of the Quatre Glorieuses - the 4 days of revolution which overthrew

Chudov Monastery, Kremlin complex, Moscow, Russia
View of the Chudov Monastery (also known as Alexius Archangel Michael Monastery) in the Kremlin complex, Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1358 by Metropolitan Alexius of Moscow

Young wounded Russian Revolutionary Soldier
A Young wounded Russian Revolutionary Soldier. Date: circa 1912

The Old Revolution House - near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. This little cottage takes its name from the Revolution of 1688. Three hundred years ago this cottage was an alehouse - the Cock and Pynot

February Revolution - Petrograd, Russia
The February Revolution of 1917 - the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. Centered on the then capital Petrograd (modern day St. Petersburg) in March

Revolutionaries - Petrograd, Russia 1917
Russian Revolutionaries (Soldiers and Sailors) in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1917. Date: 1917

Russians waiting for food - Revolution of 1917
Starving Russians in Petrograd (St Petersburg) waiting for food to be thrown down to them from a (possibly foreign) ship - Revolution of 1917. Date: 1917

Flag of Portugal and Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro
Portrait of Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (1850-1923) - Civil Servant, Member of the House of Representatives, Journalist, Author, Satirist and Poet

Palace of Necessidades, Lisbon and King Manuel II
Palace of Necessidades (Palacio das Necessidades) in the Largo do Rilvas, a public square in Lisbon, Portugal. On 5th October 1910, during the Republican Revolution, the palace

Macedonia - Young Turk Revolutionaries
The Flag of Freedom escorted by Young Turkish Revolutionaries - based in Macedonia. Date: 1908

KRUPP, Alfred (1812-1887). German industrialist of iron and steel. Engraving

SPAIN. Gij󮮠Spain. Second Republic (1931-1936)
SPAIN. Gij󮮠 Spain. Second Republic (1931-1936). Revolution in Asturias (1934). Strikers being arrested and watched over by the Fuerzas de Asalto (Assault Forces) in Gij󮮠

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