💡 Interesting Facts
the Brunswick Manifesto, issued during the French Revolution to intimidate Paris, backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?the basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne (pictured) houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution?meetings of the Committee of Public Safety, the de facto executive government during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, were convened at the Pavillon de Flore in Paris' Palais du Louvre?the church of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was destroyed during the French Revolution and all its contents sold?the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution?until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections?the purpose of the Assembly of Vizille was to discuss the events of the Day of the Tiles, one of the first revolts that preceded the French Revolution?the influential architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, who had amassed a fortune working on the notoriously unpopular Wall of the Farmers-General (pictured), was arrested and thrown in La Force Prison during the French Revolution?makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?during the French Revolution, the lawyer defending Marie Antoinette, Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde, came under such suspicion for the able defense he made, that he was forced to defend himself before the Comité de sûreté générale?Etta Palm d'Aelders, whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat, François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution, might have been an agent for the Dutch government?Mutzig's Château des Rohan (pictured) belonged to several families of noblemen and bishops of Strasbourg before being turned into a rifle factory after the French Revolution?French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the French Revolution?Karaköy, part of ancient Galata, and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn, was the birthplace of André Chénier, a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution?Peter P. Dubrovsky, Russian diplomat, collected valuable manuscripts from destroyed libraries during the time of the French Revolution?during the French Revolution, an effigy of Thomas Paine was burned before the door of the religious radical Rev. Joshua Toulmin?during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye (pictured) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?France: An Ode, by Samuel Coleridge (pictured), describes his support of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror but not the invasion of Switzerland?Augustin Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is considered one of the founding documents of the right-wing interpretation of the French Revolution?