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French Revolution
Ten years that ended a monarchy and remade a nation, 1789–1799.
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The people who made the Revolution, and the ones it destroyed.
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Louis XVI
The king who called a meeting and lost a monarchy
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Marie Antoinette
The queen France loved to hate
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Georges Danton
The orator who called for audacity, then for mercy
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Louis, Dauphin of France
The heir who never reigned, father of three kings
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Napoleon Bonaparte
The officer the Revolution made, and the ruler who ended it
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Maximilien Robespierre
The Incorruptible who defended the Terror and died by it
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Louis XV
The Well-Beloved who lost an empire and left his grandson the debts
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Camille Desmoulins
The journalist who called Paris to arms, then pleaded for clemency
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Marquis de Lafayette
The hero of two worlds who tried to hold the middle ground
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The Convention's youngest deputy, who spoke for the Terror and died beside Robespierre
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Comte de Mirabeau
The Revolution's great orator, and the court's secret adviser
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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
The abbé whose pamphlet opened the Revolution and whose coup closed it