Revolution, Liberalism, and Nationalism
in Europe, 1789-1914
Primary Source Links for The French Revolution and Napoleon
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii (1784).
The Three Estates in Pre-Revolutionary France.
The Cahiers de Doleance from Carcassonne.
What is the Third Estate? (Abbe Sieyes).
The Storming of the Bastille (Watercolor by Claude Cholat).
The Assignat (Paper Currency).
The Sans-culotte (Image).
The Sans-culotte (Text).
The Assault on the Tuileries Place, August 1792.
The September Massaces (Saint Germain-des-Pres, 1792).
The French Revolutionary Calendar.
Robespierre on Terror and Virtue.
Robespierre
Executing the Executioner
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (Jacques Louis David).
The Battle of Austerlitz (1805).
Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau (Baron Gros).
Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau (Baron Gros): Detail.
The Imperial Catechism (1806).
Napoleon and Alexander of Russia Meet at Tilsit (1807).
Napoleon in His Study (Jacques Louis David).
The Retreat from Moscow (1812) (by Albert Northern).
Napoleon
in 1814: The French Campaign (by Ernest Meissonier)
The Battle of Waterloo
(Painter Unknown).
This Page is maintained by Robert W. Brown
Last update: 08.IX.2008