Category: History
Created by: anton.chausovskyy
Number of Blossarys: 25
English (EN) 
The last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. The monarchy was abolished on Sept. 21, 1792; later Louis and his queen consort, ...
A French revolutionary and a brilliant lawyer, he gained attention (1790) when defending peasants who had burned a castle. Elected a deputy to the legislative assembly from the Gironde, he was a ...
One of the leaders of the great royalist counterrevolution in the Vendee region of France. When the revolution broke out and the First Republic was established Cathelineau rallied a small, ragged ...
A French politician and leader of the Vendéan insurrection of Royalists against the Republic during the French Revolution.
A butcher's daughter, proved to be one of the most outspoken and articulate women revolutionaries. In 1791 she wrote the following declaration, directly challenging the inferiority presumed of women ...
