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 Coup
of 18 Brumaire (James Gilray)
The
Coronation of Napoleon (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
Third of May, 1808 (Francisco Goya)
The Retreat from Moscow (1812) (by Albert Northern).
Napoleon
in 1814: The French Campaign (by Ernest Meissonier)
The Battle of Waterloo
(Painter Unknown).
Napoleon's Tomb at Les Invalides
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