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the
Brunswick Manifesto
, issued during the
French Revolution
to intimidate
Paris
, backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?
the
basilica
of
Notre-Dame de Boulogne
(
pictured
) houses a fragment of a "miraculous"
statue
burned during the
French Revolution
?
meetings of the
Committee of Public Safety
, the
de facto
executive government during the
Reign of Terror
of the
French Revolution
, were convened at the
Pavillon de Flore
in
Paris
'
Palais du Louvre
?
the church of
Saint-Étienne-des-Grès
was destroyed during the
French Revolution
and all its contents sold?
the church of
Valmagne Abbey
in south-central
France
has been used as a
wine cave
since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the
French Revolution
?
until the
French Revolution
, the
Belgian
village of
Moorsel
was divided into two distinct sections?
the purpose of the
Assembly of Vizille
was to discuss the events of
the Day of the Tiles
, one of the first revolts that preceded the
French Revolution
?
the influential architect
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
, who had amassed a fortune working on the notoriously unpopular
Wall of the Farmers-General
(
pictured
), was arrested and thrown in
La Force Prison
during the
French Revolution
?
makers of
Chantilly lace
were
guillotined
during the
French Revolution
because they were seen as
protégés
of the royals?
during the
French Revolution
, the lawyer defending
Marie Antoinette
,
Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde
, came under such suspicion for the able defense he made, that he was forced to defend himself before the
Comité de sûreté générale
?
Etta Palm d'Aelders
, whose
salon
in
Paris
was frequented by
Jean-Paul Marat
,
François Chabot
and other prominent political figures during the
French Revolution
, might have been an agent for the
Dutch
government?
Mutzig
's
Château des Rohan
(pictured)
belonged to several families of noblemen and
bishops
of
Strasbourg
before being turned into a
rifle
factory after the
French Revolution
?
French
painter
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the
French Revolution
?
Karaköy
, part of ancient
Galata
, and an important commercial and transport center at the
Golden Horn
, was the birthplace of
André Chénier
, a French poet beheaded during the
French Revolution
?
Peter P. Dubrovsky
,
Russian
diplomat, collected valuable
manuscripts
from destroyed libraries during the time of the
French Revolution
?
during the
French Revolution
, an
effigy
of
Thomas Paine
was burned before the door of the religious radical
Rev. Joshua Toulmin
?
during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the
French Revolution
,
Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye
(
pictured
) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?
France: An Ode
, by
Samuel Coleridge
(pictured)
, describes his support of the
French Revolution
and the
Reign of Terror
but not the invasion of Switzerland?
Augustin Barruel
'
s
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
is considered one of the founding documents of the
right-wing
interpretation of the
French Revolution
?
Facts on topics related to French Revolution
French Directory
Letters on a Regicide Peace
, by
Edmund Burke
(pictured)
, criticises the British government for seeking peace with the
Directory
of
revolutionary France
when France threatened to invade Britain?
National Convention
Jean-Baptiste Belley
(pictured)
, a former
slave
from
Saint-Domingue
, became a member of the
National Convention
of
France
, where in 1794 he took part in the decision to
abolish slavery
?
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