The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the French Revolution.
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal system changed in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while its values and institutions remain central to modern French political discourse.
Background edit
Factors which can be seen as leading to the French Revolution:
Important Events edit
Abolition of the Ancien Régime edit
- Storming of the Bastille
- Creation of the Paris Commune
- August Decrees
- Abolition of feudalism in France
- National Assembly (French Revolution)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Women's March on Versailles
- Insurrection of 10 August 1792
- Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy
Creation of the First French Republic edit
- Legislative Assembly
- National Convention
- Execution of Louis XVI
- Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793
- September Massacres
- Creation of the French Republican calendar
- Creation of the Committee of Public Safety
- Commission of Twelve
- French Constitution of 1793
Reign of terror edit
- Law of General Maximum
- Law of Suspects
- Drownings at Nantes
- Anti-Religious Policies
- Law of 22 Prairial
- Cult of the Supreme Being
- Fall of Maximilien Robespierre
Thermidorian Reaction edit
The Directory edit
- 13 Vendémiaire
- 1795 French legislative election
- Conspiracy of the Equals
- Coup of 18 Fructidor
- 1798 French legislative election
The Consulate edit
Leading Political Figures edit
Political Parties and Clubs edit
Political Leaders edit
- Bertrand Barère
- Billaud-Varenne
- Camille Desmoulins
- Collot d'Herbois
- Georges Couthon
- Georges Danton
- Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
- Jean-Lambert Tallien
- Jacques Pierre Brissot
- Jean-Paul Marat
- Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
- Joseph Fouché
- Lazare Carnot
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Paul Barras
French Revolutionary Wars edit
Participants edit
anti-French coalition edit
- Catholic and Royal Armies
- Dutch Republic (1793–95)
- Holy Roman Empire
- Austria (until 1801)
- Prussia (1792–95)
- Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg
- Baden
- Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
- Wurttemberg
- Brunswick
- Kingdom of Great Britain (Until 1801)
- Anglo-Corsican Kingdom (until 1796)
- United Kingdom
- Kingdom of Spain (1793–95)
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Kingdom of Naples
- Old Swiss Confederacy (1798)
- Order of Saint John (1798)
- Malta (1798–1800)
- Ottoman Empire
- Portugal
- Russia (1799)
- Tuscany
France and Allies edit
- Kingdom of France (until 1792)
- French Republic (from 1792)
- Batavian Republic (1795–1802)
- Irish Republic
- Polish Legions
- Helvetic Republic (1798, 1802)
- Spain (1796–1802)
War of the First Coalition edit
- War of the First Coalition
- List of battles of the War of the First Coalition
- Campaigns of 1792 in the French Revolutionary Wars
- Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars
- Campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars
- Campaigns of 1795 in the French Revolutionary Wars
- Campaigns of 1796 in the French Revolutionary Wars
- Campaigns of 1797 in the French Revolutionary Wars
- Campaigns of 1798 in the French Revolutionary Wars
War of the Second Coalition edit
Leading Military Figures edit
France edit
- André Masséna
- Charles François Dumouriez
- François Kellermann
- Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
- Jean-Charles Pichegru
- Jean Lannes
- Jean Victor Moreau
- Lazare Hoche
- Jean Humbert
- Louis Desaix
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Spain edit
Catholic and Royal Armies edit
Holy Roman Empire edit
Prussia edit
Great Britain edit
See Also edit
- Glossary of the French Revolution
- List of people associated with the French Revolution
- List of political groups in the French Revolution
- Symbolism in the French Revolution
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