The Reign of Terror and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1792-1804
The
Execution of Louis XIV
(January, 1793)
Doctor Guillotin and Enlightenment Capital Punishment
The First French Republic: January 1793-August 1794
The
Jacobins
, the
Sans-Culottes
, and Popular Politics
Gender:
Female Politics
v. Republican Motherhood
Race:
Toussaint l'Ouverture
, Haiti, and the End of Slavery
Belley, Haitian Representative to the National Convention
Maximilien Robespierre
(1757-1794;
portrait
)
"The Incorruptible",
"The Mountain,"
and the Commitee for Public Safety
Jacques-Louis David,
The Triumph of the French People
(1794)
The Martyrdom of Jean-Paul Marat
Charlotte Corday and the Murder
Jacques-Louis David,
The Death of Marat
(1794)
Revolutionary Government or Reign of Terror?
Enemies at Home and Abroad
War, Emigrés, and Counter-Revolution
The "Levée en Masse" and the
French Revolutionary Army
Napoleon Buonaparte
(1769-1821;
portrait
)
From Corsican Artillery Officer to General
The
Vendée
and Counter-Revolution
Deputies on Mission
Regenerating the Nation and Building a Republic of Virtue
The Cult of Rousseau
The Revolutionary calendar
The "Decade" and National Holidays
,
the Year
Dechristianization and the "
Cult of the Supreme Being
"
The Creation of the
Pantheon of the French Nation
The "Pantheonization" of Rousseau
(October 11, 1794)
La Marseillaise,
Lady
Liberty and the Tricolor Flag
The "Grand Terror" (June-July, 1794)
The Girondins,
Danton
, and the "Enragés"
The Thermidorian Reaction and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte (1794-1799)
July, 1794: The execution of Robespierre
The Directory and the Thermidorian Reaction
Between Republicanism and Monarchy
Jacques-Louis David,
Intervention of the Sabine Women
(1796)
Napoleon, Sièyes and the 18th Brumaire, 1799
Napoleon's "Little whiff of grapeshot"
(1795)
Napoleon as First Consul and the Coup d'Etat of 18 Brumaire, 1799
Jean-Dominique Ingres
(1780-1867),
Napoleon as First Consul
(1799)
Napoleon Bonaparte: Saviour of the Revolution or its Repudiation?
From General, to First Consul, to Dictator, to Emperor (1789-1804)
The Concordat of 1801
The Code Napoléon
Educational and Administrative Reform
Public Education: The Lycées and The Grand Ecoles
The Prefect System and Police
Aristocracy, Meritocracy, and
The Legion of Honor
