Category: History
Created by: anton.chausovskyy
Number of Blossarys: 25
English (EN) 
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 ...
A French politician and leader of the Vendéan insurrection of Royalists against the Republic during the French Revolution.
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 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 ...
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, ...
