- French Revolution

 

 

 

 



David,  Death of Marat (1793)


Execution of Louis XVI
21 January 1793,  from Decaux.


David, Oath of the Horatii  (1784)


David,  Death of Socrates (1786)


David,  Tennis Court Oath  (1789)


Camille Desmoulins (1768-94)


Georges Danton (1759-1794)


Maximillien Robespierre (1758- 1794)


Boilly,  A Sans-cullote

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • How would Rousseau and Voltaire have analyzed the progressive radicalization of the French Revolution
    and the rise of Napoleon to imperial power?
  • How did the French Revolution inspire Wordsworth and Coleridge to lead a revolution in English poetry?
  • What phrases and images, as well as conception of history, are shared in the millennial early poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge?
  • To what degree was The French Revolution the result of the Enlightenment Era political thought or socio-economic forces?
  • Describe how the rise of Napoleon led to the rise of European nationalism?
  • What influence did French Radicals have on the rise of communism and/or fascism?
  • How did the stages of the French revolution naturally develop over time and what were the response to this change in art, music and literature? (David, Beethoven, Burke, Dickens)

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Fall of the Bastille July 1789


Jean Duplessis-Bertaux , Depiction of the storming of the Tuileries Palace on 10 august 1792


September 1792 Massacres


The Execution of Louis XVI, 21 January 1793


 
Rude, La Marseillaise, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833-1836.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Gros, Napoleon at Arcola. (1796)


David, Napoleon (1800)


David, Napoleon  (1812)


Gros,  Murat at the Battle of Aboukir (1799)


 Retreat from Moscow (1812)

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  • The Romantic Era from Music History 101 (IPL)
  • Romantic Music from The Capistrano Elementary School
  • 2305 Retelling the history of La Marseillaise -- in which a song shapes both a nation and a language

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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