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Neighborhoods

• The Bastille and its neighborhood
  • The Bastille
  • The Foundations of the Liberty Tower
  • A Commemorative Site
  • A Revolutionary Club
  • The Stones of the Bastille: Commemorative Objects
  • “The Réveillon Riots,” April 27-28, 1789
  • J-B Réveillon, a Nouveau Riche in a Working-Class Neighborhood
  • A Cemetery for those Executed by the Guillotine
• The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève and its neighborhood
  • École Polytechnique
  • Republican Incubators?
  • École Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm)
  • From the Worship of Saints to that of the Republic
  • Sainte-Pélagie, a Prison during the Revolution
  • The Natural History Museum and the Botanical Gardens
  • The Botanical Gardens and its Menagerie
• The Parc Monceau Neighborhood
  • Down with Unfair Taxes! The Chartres Rotunda
  • The "Chartres Pleasure Palace"
  • A Forgotten Cemetery
  • The Château des Ternes
• The Expiatory Chapel and its neighborhood
  • The Expiatory Chapel: a Commemorative Site
  • What to do with the Madeleine Church?
  • The French Guards' Barracks
  • Lakanal’s Garden and the Kings’ Heads of Notre-Dame
  • Mirabeau’s Deathbed
  • Entertainment after the Revolution: the Tivoli Gardens
• The Panthéon and its neighborhood
  • "To the Great Men, a Grateful Homeland"
  • Exemplary Sans-Culottes
  • A School for Children of Color from the Colonies
  • An Irish Republic in the middle of Paris
  • The Revolution and Religious Faith
  • The National Institute for Deaf Youth
  • Massacre at the Monastery
• Temple and its Neighborhood
  • Temple or the Last Prison
  • Curtius and Madame Tussaud
  • Rue Meslay and Revolutionaries from around the World
  • Make Science Useful for All
  • Public Places during the Revolution
  • The Bourrienne Hotel and the “Marvelous Madame Hamelin”
  • A Prison during the Revolution
  • Unfair Taxes
• The Ile de la Cité and the Conciergerie and its neighborhood
  • The Palais de la Cité and the Conciergerie
  • When the National Assembly was Next to Notre-Dame!
  • The Last Home of the "Sans-Culottes Generalissimo"
  • The Imperial Hotel: a Meeting Place for Revolutionaries
  • The Statue of Henri IV: The Revolutionaries’ Favorite King!
  • Free People of Color get Involved in the Revolution
  • The Last Home of Olympe de Gouges
  • "Madame Roland," Female Politician
  • The Florists of Paris
  • The Female Merchants of the Halle of Paris
• The Carnavalet Museum and its neighborhood
  • The Carnavalet Museum
  • The Last Mayor of the Ancien Régime
  • Revolutionizing Street Names
  • One Family's Success during the Revolution
  • The Theater of the Marais or “Theater Beaumarchais”
  • A Royal Square during the Revolution
  • Beaumarchais: a Writer’s Wealth
  • Beaumarchais, a Revolutionary on Paper Only?
• The Odéon neighborhood
  • Danton’s Statue
  • The Cour du Commerce-Saint-André
  • The Café Procope: A Cradle of Freedom
  • Marat’s Assassination
  • The Cordeliers Monastery
  • The Odéon Theater
  • The Café Voltaire, a Forgotten Site of the Revolution
  • Civic Banquets
  • The Journalist Louise de Kéralio
  • Marie-Anne Lenormand, Fortune Teller
  • Saint-Sulpice Church, a Republican Temple
  • When the Revolution Decorated Paris Homes
  • The French Monuments Museum
• The Catacombs neighborhood
  • The Catacombs of Paris
  • Hell’s Gate: Paris, an Open-Air Prison?
  • The Paris Observatory: a Scientific Utopia
• The Hôtel de Ville and its neighborhood
  • The Hôtel de Ville, Headquarters of the Parisian Revolution
  • A la Lanterne (Hang’em High)!
  • Sharing the Church’s Riches
  • The Grand Châtelet, Prison of the Ancien Régime
  • A Square from the Ancien Régime during the Revolution: “The Grève”
  • When Laws were Posted on the Street (Saint-Gervais Church)
  • Free People of Color Speak Out
  • In the Neighborhood of the Sans-Culottes
• The Place de la Concorde and its neighborhood
  • The Guillotine
  • Everyone to the Royal Treasury!
  • The Festival of Union
  • The Statue of Liberty: Revolutionary Origins
  • A Palace for the Representatives of the People
• The Louvre and the Tuileries neighborhood
  • The King's Return to the Tuileries and the Fall of the Monarchy
  • The Committee of Public Safety (Pavillon de Flore)
  • The National Garden of the Tuileries
  • The Duke of Lambesc’s Mad Charge, July 12, 1789
  • The Assembly in Paris
  • Robespierre's Last Residence
  • When the Place Vendôme was a Revolutionary Square
  • The Jacobin Club and Revolutionary Republicans
  • How Can a Person Earn their Stripes by Shooting Innocent People?
  • From the Palace of the Kings to the National Museum (the Louvre Museum)
  • At the Louvre, in the Home of Bailly, the First Mayor of Paris
• The Palais-Royal and its neighborhood
  • The Revolution of the Comédie-Française
  • The Palais Royal, the Nerve Center of the Revolution
  • “Everyone to Curtius’s Store!” The Demonstration of July 12, 1789
  • Camille Desmoulins and the Orators of the Palais-Royal
  • A Stage for Political Crimes
  • The Montansier Theater (38 rue Montpensier)
  • Rose Bertin, Milliner to the Queen
  • Claire Lacombe, a Republican Militant
  • Revolutionaries from All Countries…
  • Down with Kings!
  • Before Arrondissements: the Paris Sections
  • Defending Colonial Order: the Massiac Club
  • The French Revolution against Slavery: the Society of the Friends of Black People
• The Place de la Nation and its neighborhood
  • The Guillotine at Nation
  • The Tollgate and Columns on the Place de la Nation
  • Picpus, a Commemorative Site of the Terror
  • The Lausanne Citizen, an Activist from the Working-Class Neighborhoods
  • A Famous Sans-Culotte: Santerre, the Brewer
  • The Belhomme, a Prison for the Rich
• The Champ-de-Mars and its neighborhood
  • The Festival of the Supreme Being
  • The Festival of the Federation
  • The Explosion of the Grenelle Gunpowder Factory
  • The Conférence Tollgate
  • The Champ-de-Mars Massacre
  • Gunfire on Rue Saint Dominique

Personnages

• Fabre d’Églantine, Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre, otherwise known as
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Favras, Thomas de Mahy, otherwise known as the Marquis of
• Flesselles, Jacques de
• Foullon, Joseph-François, Baron of Doué, otherwise known as Foullon de Doué
• Fouquier de Tinville, Antoine-Quentin
• Méricourt, Anne-Josèphe Terwagne or Théroigne de
• Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de
• Maillard, Marie-Thérèse Davoux, otherwise known as Mademoiselle
• Maillard, Stanislas-Marie
• Marat, Jean-Paul
• Marie-Antoinette of Habsburg-Lorraine
• Mills, Jean-Baptiste
• Monge, Gaspard
• Montansier, Marguerite Brunet, otherwise known as Mademoiselle
• Mordant, Louis-Claude-René de, the Marquis of Massiac
• Lamourette, Antoine-Adrien
• La Fayette, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis of
• Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Louis-Michel
• L'Épée, Charles-Michel de, otherwise known as Father
• La Fage, Victor-Amédée de, otherwise known as the Marquis of Saint-Huruge
• Labrousse, Clotilde-Suzanne Courcelle, otherwise known as Suzette
• Lacombe, Claire
• Lakanal, Joseph
• Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de
• Lambesc, Charles-Eugène de Lorraine, Prince of
• Latude, Jean-Henri Masers, otherwise known as the Knight of
• Launay, Bernard-René Jourdan de
• Lazowski, Claude-François
• Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas
• Lenoir, Alexandre
• Lenormand, Marie-Anne, otherwise known as Madame
• Léon, Pauline
• Lesueur, Jean-Baptiste
• Loménie de Brienne, Étienne-Charles de
• Louis XVI, Louis-Auguste de France, otherwise known as
• Louis XVII, Louis-Charles de France, otherwise known as
• Desmoulins, Camille
• Danton, Georges-Jacques
• Delgrès, Louis
• Dufay, Louis Pierre
• Duplay, Maurice
• Volney, Constantin-François Chassebœuf de La Giraudais, otherwise known as
• Cuvier, Georges
• Chabry, Louise-Marguerite, otherwise known as Louison Cabry
• Châtelet, Louis-Marie-Florent, Duke of
• Chavannes, Jean-Baptiste
• Chénier, Marie-Joseph
• Clavière, Étienne
• Colombe, Anne-Félicité
• Conté, Nicolas-Jacques
• Corday d’Armans, Marie-Anne-Charlotte, otherwise known as Charlotte Corday
• Curtius, Philippe Mathé-Curtz, otherwise known as
• Barry, Jeanne Bécu, otherwise known as Madame du
• Berthollet, Claude-Louis
• Bertier de Sauvigny, Louis-Bénigne-François
• Bertin, Rose
• Bonaparte, Napoléon
• Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre
• Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of
• Babeuf, François-Noël, otherwise known as Gracchus
• Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
• Barnave, Antoine
• Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
• Belley, Jean-Baptiste
• Anne of Austria
• Artois, Charles-Philippe of France, Count of
• Audu, Louise-Reine
• Évrard, Constance and Simone
• Talma, François
• Théot, Catherine, otherwise known as Mère-Dieu
• Toussaint Louverture, François-Dominique
• Tussaud, Marie Grosholtz, otherwise known as Madame
• Verniquet, Edme
• Victor of Aveyron, otherwise known as “the Wild Boy”
• Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, otherwise known as
• Wolfe Tone, Theobald
• Wollstonecraft, Mary
• Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne
• Gouges, Marie Gouze, otherwise known as Olympe de
• Grégoire, Henri-Jean-Baptiste, otherwise known as Father
• Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace
• Hamelin, Fortunée, otherwise known as Madame Hamelin
• Hébert, Jacques-René
• Henri IV
• Hulin, Pierre-Augustin
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Joly, Étienne de
• Kéralio, Louise de
• Necker, Jacques
• Ogé, Vincent
• Orléans, Louis-Philippe-Joseph d’, otherwise known as Philippe Égalité
• Palloy, Pierre-François
• Palm, Etta, Baroness of Aelders
• Pochetat, Catherine
• Quenedey, Edme
• Raimond, Julien
• Reboul, Henri
• Réveillon, Jean-Baptiste
• Robespierre, Maximilien de
• Roland de la Platière, Jean-Marie
• Roland, Jeanne-Marie Phlipon, otherwise known as Madame
• Rouget de L’Isle, Claude-Joseph
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Roux, Jacques
• Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François, the Marquis of
• Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de
• Santerre, Antoine-Joseph
• Schmidt, Tobias
• Schmidt, Tobias