Encyclopedia - Fête De La Fédération: Encyclopedia Ii - Fête De La Fédération - The Fête De La Fédération
Fête de la Fédération - Preparation of the feast: the Journée des brouettes. The event took place on the Champ de Mars, which was a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille Day: Encyclopedia - Bastille Day
Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. It is called Fête Nationale (National Holiday) in France. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (February 2, 1754 - May 17, 1838) was a French diplomat. He worked successfully from the regime o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille: Encyclopedia - Bastille
The Bastille was a prison in Paris, known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoine—Number 232, Rue Saint-Antoine. The storming of the Bastill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Champ De Mars: Encyclopedia - Champ De Mars
The Champ de Mars is a large public green-space in Paris, France, located in the 7th arrondissement, between the Eiffel Tower to the nort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Storming Of The Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Storming Of The Bastille - The Bastille Is Stormed
The insurgents invaded the Hôtel des Invalides to gather arms, and then attacked the Bastille. At this point, the jail was nearly empty,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille Day: Encyclopedia Ii - Bastille Day - Current Festivities
14 July is the French national day, simply called Fête nationale or 14 juillet (though it is generally referred to as Bastille Day in En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Bastille - Early History
Built around 1370 as part of the defences of Paris, the structure was converted into a prison in the 15th century by Charles VI. At that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen Maria Williams: Encyclopedia Ii - Helen Maria Williams - Life
She was born to a Scottish mother, Helen Hay, and a Welsh army officer father, Charles Williams. Sources variously give her birth as 1761...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand - French Revolution
In the Estates-General of 1789, he represented the clergy, the First Estate. During the French Revolution, he supported the revolutionary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand - French Revolution
In the Estates-General of 1789, he represented the clergy, the First Estate. During the French Revolution he supported the revolutionary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Storming Of The Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Storming Of The Bastille - Aftermath
The citizenry of Paris, expecting a counterattack, entrenched the streets, built barricades of paving stones, and armed themselves as wel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand - French Empire
In March 1804, he was involved in the kidnapping and execution of the Duke of Enghien. In response to those events, and once again, to av...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand - Restoration
When Napoleon was succeeded by Louis XVIII in April 1814, Talleyrand was one of the key creators of the restoration of the Bourbons while...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Bastille - Storming
Main article: Storming of the Bastille. The confrontation between the commoners and the ancien régime ultimately led to the people of Pa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand - French Empire
In March 1804, he may have been involved in the kidnapping and execution of the Duke of Enghien; this remains one of history's great myst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Storming Of The Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Storming Of The Bastille - Background
During the reign of king Louis XVI, France was forced to confront a major financial crisis which had been brewing for decades. On May 5, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand - Restoration
When Napoleon was succeeded by Louis XVIII in April 1814, Talleyrand was one of the key creators of the restoration of the Bourbons while...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand - French Empire
In March 1804 he was involved in the kidnapping and execution of the Duke of Enghien; in response to those events, and once again, to ave...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille Day: Encyclopedia Ii - Bastille Day - History Of The Celebration
On 30 June 1878, a feast had been set in Paris by official decision to honour the Republic (the event was immortalised by a painting by C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Bastille - Demolition
The propaganda value of the Bastille was quickly seized upon, notably by the showy entrepreneur Pierre-François Palloy, "Patriote Palloy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Storming Of The Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Storming Of The Bastille - Necker's Dismissal
On July 11, 1789, with troops at Versailles, Sèvres, the Champ de Mars, and Saint-Denis, the king, acting under the influence of the con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bastille Day: Encyclopedia Ii - Bastille Day - Historical Background
Bastille Day - The Storming of the Bastille. Main article: Storming of the Bastille. On 5 May 1789, Louis XVI convened the Estates-Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Storming Of The Bastille: Encyclopedia Ii - Storming Of The Bastille - Armed Conflict
A growing crowd, brandishing busts of Necker and of the duke of Orleans, passed through the streets to the Place Vendôme, where they put...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fête De La Fédération: Encyclopedia Ii - Fête De La Fédération - Reaction In Foreign Countries
In Germany and Italy, the French Revolution was rather well considered by urban bourgeoisie, impregnated with the ideas of the Lumières ...   » Read the article