French Revolution
The Early Stages
The National Assembly
Limited Monarchy
The Terror
Maximilien RobespierreHe set out to build a republic of virtue to wipe out every trace of France's past. He changed the calendar, it had no Sundays because he thought religion was "old-fashioned and dangerous" | Georges DantonHe was sentenced to death because he was an enemy of the revolution. His friends would not defend him and on the scaffold he told the executor "Don't forget to show my head to the people. Its well worth seeing" | Marie AntoinetteMarie Antoinette was not well liked among the French people, one because of her beauty, and her new fashion the elders thought she was scandalous. Eventually she was executed. |
Maximilien Robespierre
He set out to build a republic of virtue to wipe out every trace of France's past. He changed the calendar, it had no Sundays because he thought religion was "old-fashioned and dangerous"
Georges Danton
He was sentenced to death because he was an enemy of the revolution. His friends would not defend him and on the scaffold he told the executor "Don't forget to show my head to the people. Its well worth seeing"