French Revolution

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historical event political revolution revolution social revolution

The French Revolution was a late-18th-century upheaval in France that overthrew the monarchy, radically restructured society, and profoundly influenced modern politics, law, and concepts of citizenship and human rights.

Aliases (9)

French Revolutionary era ×8
French Revolution of 1789 ×5
Events of the French Revolution ×2
French Revolution era ×2
French Revolution (initially) ×1
French Revolution – constitutional monarchy phase ×1
The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793 ×1
revolutionary France ×1
the French Revolution ×1

Statements (83)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical event → political revolution → revolution → social revolution →
cause	American Revolution influence → financial crisis of the French monarchy → heavy taxation of the Third Estate → influence of Enlightenment ideas → social inequality under the Ancien Régime → widespread famine and bread shortages →
characterizedBy	mass political participation → radical social change → violence and political purges →
conflict	French Revolutionary Wars →
country	France →
endDate	1799-11-09 →
endEvent	Coup of 18 Brumaire →
followedBy	First French Empire → French Revolutionary Wars → Napoleonic era →
ideology	liberalism → popular sovereignty → republicanism →
influenced	Haitian Revolution → Latin American wars of independence → modern concepts of citizenship → modern human rights discourse → subsequent European revolutions →
introduced	metric system in France → universal male conscription in France → universal male suffrage during the National Convention →
keyDocument	Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen → French Constitution of 1791 → French Constitution of 1793 → French Constitution of 1795 →
keyEvent	Abolition of feudalism → Coup of 18 Brumaire → Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen → Execution of Louis XVI → Flight to Varennes → Reign of Terror → September Massacres → Storming of the Bastille → Storming of the Tuileries Palace → Tennis Court Oath → Thermidorian Reaction → Women’s March on Versailles →
legislativeBody	Directory → Legislative Assembly → National Assembly → National Constituent Assembly → National Convention →
location	French provinces → Paris → Versailles →
majorFaction	Feuillants → Girondins → Jacobins → Montagnards →
notableLeader	Camille Desmoulins → Georges Danton → Jean-Paul Marat → Maximilien Robespierre → Napoleon Bonaparte →
opposedMonarch	Louis XVI of France → Marie Antoinette →
overthrew	French monarchy → absolute monarchy in France →
period	late 18th century →
precededBy	Ancien Régime →
religiousPolicy	Civil Constitution of the Clergy → dechristianization campaign →
result	abolition of feudal privileges → codification of laws influencing the Napoleonic Code → end of the Ancien Régime → establishment of a republic in France → expansion of political rights for citizens → rise of secularism in France → spread of nationalism in Europe →
slogan	Liberty, Equality, Fraternity →
startDate	1789-05-05 →
startEvent	Estates-General of 1789 → convening of the Estates-General →

Referenced by (259)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Vindication of the Rights of Men → Antonio Nariño → Bolivian War of Independence → Bonapartism → Brazilian independence movement → Catéchisme positiviste → Central American independence movement → Haitian Declaration of Independence → Henri de Saint-Simon → Italian Risorgimento → Latin American independence movements → Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis → Mikhail Bakunin → National Assembly of the Batavian Republic → Norwegian independence movement → Polish independence movement → Romantic nationalism → The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century → communism →	influencedBy
Antoine Barnave → Bertrand Barère → Camille Desmoulins → Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin → Charlotte Corday → Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle → Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès → Georges Danton → Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau → Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne → Jean-Baptiste Carrier → Jean-Paul Marat → Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne → Lazare Carnot → Louis Antoine de Saint-Just → Maximilien Robespierre → Paul Barras → Pierre-Roger Ducos → Thomas Paine →	movement
Adrienne de Noailles ("French Revolutionary era") → Antoine Barnave ("French Revolution era") → Armies of the French Revolution and Empire → Battle of Jemappes → Convention of 1800 ("French Revolutionary era") → Execution of Louis XVI → French Directory → La Marseillaise → Legislative Assembly (France) → Martin-Dauch → Plain (La Plaine) → Preliminaries of Leoben ("French Revolution era") → President of the Council of Five Hundred → Thomas-Alexandre Dumas → Treaty of Campo Formio →	historicalPeriod
Adrienne de Noailles → Bertrand Barère → Francisco de Miranda → Gaspard Monge → Georges Danton → Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne → Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Jean-Sylvain Bailly → Joseph Fourier → Lafayette → Lucien Bonaparte → Marquis de Lafayette → Maximilien Robespierre → Paul Barras →	participatedIn
Civil Constitution of the Clergy → Coup of 18 Brumaire ("French Revolutionary era") → Directory → Directory (France) → Execution of Louis XVI → Flight to Varennes → French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen → Legislative Assembly → Legislative Assembly (France) → National Convention → Reign of Terror → September Massacres → Storming of the Bastille → Storming of the Tuileries Palace → Thermidorian Reaction →	partOf
Adrienne de Noailles → Bastille → Charles X of France → Coq gaulois → Dominican convent on Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris → French President reviews the military parade ("French Revolution of 1789") → French republicanism → Gallic rooster → House of Beauharnais → Hôtel de Brienne → Jacobin convent → Liberty Cap → Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité → Neoclassicism →	associatedWith
Allier department → Ardèche → Bas-Rhin → Corrèze → Creuse → Drôme → Haute-Loire → Hautes-Pyrénées → Nord → Nord (department) → Rhône → Rhône (department) → Yonne department →	createdDuring
Age of Enlightenment → American Revolutionary era → Encyclopédie → Enlightenment philosophy → Enlightenment rationalism ("the French Revolution") → French Enlightenment → Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Republicanism → The Social Contract →	influenced
Alexandre de Beauharnais → Antoine Lavoisier → Camille Desmoulins → Charles-François Lebrun → Georges Couthon → Jacques-Louis David → Jean-Baptiste Carrier → Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès →	participantIn
Battle of Fleurus (1794) → Battle of Valmy → Charles Leclerc ("French Revolutionary era") → Jacques François Dugommier → Jacques-François Menou → Louis Desaix ("French Revolutionary era") → Madame de Staël →	era
Filiki Eteria → First Republic of Venezuela → Haitian Revolution → Indian independence movement → Mexican War of Independence → Olympic Phryge → Venezuelan War of Independence →	inspiredBy
Cantal → Lot → Seine-Maritime → Seine-et-Marne → Somme →	createdAsDepartment
Batavian Republic ("French Revolutionary era") → Council of Ancients ("French Revolutionary era") → Council of Five Hundred (faction) → Directory (France) → French Consulate →	historicalEra
A Vindication of the Rights of Men → Discourses on Davila → Orphans of the Storm → The Death of Marat → The Old Regime and the Revolution →	mainSubject
Feuillants → French Royalists → Girondins → Montagnards →	activeInPeriod
A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film) → Orphans of the Storm → Scènes de la vie militaire → The Knight of Maison-Rouge →	setInPeriod
Democratic-Republican Party ("French Revolution (initially)") → Gaspard Monge → Joseph Priestley → Thomas Paine →	supported
Jacobin Club → Jean Moreau ("French Revolutionary era") → Society of Friends of the Constitution →	activeIn
Constitution of the Year VIII → Discourses on Davila → French Constitution of 1791 →	historicalContext
Bourbon realms → Charles IV of Spain → Marie Antoinette →	notableEvent
Concordat of 1801 → July Revolution in France ("French Revolution of 1789") → Le Quatorze Juillet ("French Revolution of 1789") →	relatedTo
Committee of Public Safety → French Republican Army of the Alps → Women’s March on Versailles →	timePeriod
Estates-General of 1789 ("Events of the French Revolution") → Fête de la Fédération ("Events of the French Revolution") →	category
Flight to Varennes → French Revolutionary Wars →	cause
Bastille Day → Le Quatorze Juillet →	commemorates
Académie royale de musique → Collège de Navarre →	dissolved
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture → Académie royale d’architecture →	dissolvedDuring
Champ de Mars Massacre → murder of Jean-Paul Marat →	hasHistoricalPeriod
French National Convention → Legislative Assembly ("French Revolution – constitutional monarchy phase") →	legislativePeriod
National Constituent Assembly → Place de la Bastille →	significantEvent
Duchy of Orléans →	abolished
Kings of France →	abolishedBy
French tricolour →	adoptionContext
Council of Ancients →	appliesToPeriod
Code Louis →	appliesUntil
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze →	arrestContext
French tricolour →	associatedEvent
La Marseillaise →	associatedWithEvent
1889 Exposition Universelle →	commemoratedEvent
Fort Saint-Nicolas →	conflictInvolved
Aisne →	createdBy
Aude →	createdIn
French royal court →	declinePeriod
Musée Carnavalet →	dedicatedTo
Bastille →	demolishedDuring
The Tennis Court Oath (unfinished) →	depicts
Kingdom of France →	dissolutionEvent
Maison du Roi →	dissolvedIn
French Constitution of 1793 →	draftedDuring
Ancien Régime ("French Revolution of 1789") →	endCause
French Crown →	endedWithEvent
Ancien Régime →	endEvent
Treaties of the Kingdom of France →	endTime
French First Republic →	establishedDuring
Jean-Sylvain Bailly →	executedDuring
American Revolutionary War →	followedBy
French Republican Calendar →	follows
First Coalition →	formedInContextOf
War of the First Coalition →	hasCause
Chavaniac-Lafayette →	hasHistoricalPeriodAssociation
The Old Regime and the Revolution ("French Revolution of 1789") →	historicalEventDescribed
Saint-Cloud →	historicallyAssociatedWith
Atlantic Revolutions →	includesEvent
Louis XVI of France →	involvedIn
Charles IV of Spain →	monarchDuring
The Death of Marat →	narrativeContext
The Age of Revolution →	notableEventCovered
Peter Kropotkin ("The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793") →	notableWork
Third Consul →	officeCreatedAfterEvent
French Royalists →	opposed
Fête de la Fédération →	organizedDuring
Dominican convent on Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris →	periodOfMajorPoliticalUse
French Constitution of 1795 →	phaseOf
Faubourg Saint-Antoine →	playedRoleIn
Plain (La Plaine) ("revolutionary France") →	politicalSystemContext
French Revolutionary Wars →	precededBy
Regent Diamond →	recoveredAfter
Picpus Cemetery →	relatedEvent
The Adventure of the German Student →	settingPeriod
Regent Diamond →	stolenDuring
A Vindication of the Rights of Men →	supports
Bishopric of Ypres →	suppressedByEvent
Cluny Abbey →	suppressedDuring
Place de la Bastille →	symbolOf
Orphans of the Storm →	theme
Jacobin convent →	timePeriodOfProminence
Estates-General of 1789 →	triggered
Pont de la Concorde →	usedDuring
King of the French →	usedInPeriod