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The French Revolution [a] was a period of political and societal change 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, [1] while its values and institutions ...
The revolt of Lyon against the National Convention was a counter-revolutionary movement in the city of Lyon during the time of the French Revolution. It was a revolt of moderates against the more radical National Convention, the third government during the French Revolution. It broke out in June 1793 [1] and was put down in October of the same ...
The national emblem of France depicts a fasces, representing justice. Fasces, like many other symbols of the French Revolution, are Roman in origin. Fasces are a bundle of birch rods containing a sacrificial axe. In Roman times, the fasces symbolized the power of magistrates, representing union and accord with the Roman Republic.
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly ( French: Assemblée nationale ), which existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, [1] was a revolutionary assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (commoners) of the Estates-General and eventually joined by some members of the First and Second Estates.
British Security Co-ordination ( BSC) was a covert organisation set up in New York City by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in May 1940 upon the authorisation of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill . Its purpose was to investigate enemy activities, prevent sabotage against British interests in the Americas, and mobilise pro ...
Représentant en mission, painting attributed to Jacques-Louis David During the French Revolution (1789–1799 or 1815), a représentant en mission was an extraordinary envoy of the Legislative Assembly. The term is most often assigned to deputies designated by the National Convention for maintaining law and order in the départements and armies. They had powers to oversee conscription into ...
France. Assignats were paper money ( fiat currency) authorized by the Constituent Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution, to address imminent bankruptcy. They were originally backed by the value of properties now held by the nation; those of the crown taken over on 7 October, and those of the Catholic Church, which ...
The insurrection of 1 Prairial Year III was a popular revolt in Paris on 20 May 1795 against the policies of the Thermidorian Convention. It was one of the last popular revolts of the French Revolution. [1] After their defeat in Prairial, the sans-culottes ceased to play any effective part until the next round of revolutions in the early ...
The Society of 1789 ( French: Club de 1789 ), or the Patriotic Society of 1789 (French: Société patriotique de 1789 ), was a political club of the French Revolution inaugurated during a festive banquet held at Palais-Royal in May 13, 1790 [3] by more moderate elements of the Club Breton. [4] At their height of influence, it was the second ...
Commands held. Army of the West. Battles/wars. French Revolutionary Wars. ( Storming of the Bastille, Capture of the Tuileries) War in the Vendée ( Virée de Galerne) Jean Antoine Rossignol ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan ʁɔsiɲɔl]; 7 November 1759 – 27 April 1802) was a general of the French Revolutionary Wars .