French revolutionaries

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French revolutionaries were the diverse groups of activists, thinkers, and political actors who led and shaped the radical social and political upheavals in France from 1789 onward, challenging monarchy, aristocracy, and traditional hierarchies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical collective actor
political movement participant group
activeIn French Revolution
country France
ideology early socialism
liberalism
radical republicanism
includesGroup Cordeliers
linked to: Cordeliers Club

Feuillants
Girondins
Jacobins
linked to: Jacobin Club

Montagnards
sans-culottes
includesIndividual Bertrand Barère
Camille Desmoulins
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Georges Couthon
Georges Danton
Gracchus Babeuf
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Jacques Hébert
Jean-Paul Marat
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Madame Roland
Marquis de Lafayette
Maximilien Robespierre
Olympe de Gouges
Pierre Vergniaud
influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
Voltaire
legacy inspiration for later democratic movements
spread of revolutionary ideas in Europe
opposed Ancien Régime
French monarchy
aristocracy
feudal privileges
organizedEvent Insurrection of 10 August 1792
Reign of Terror
Storming of the Bastille
Women’s March on Versailles
resultedIn abolition of the French monarchy
adoption of a written constitution in France
establishment of the First French Republic
secularization of the state
supported Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
abolition of feudalism
equality before the law
popular sovereignty
republicanism
timePeriod from 1789 onward
late 18th century
usedInstitution Committee of Public Safety
Legislative Assembly
National Assembly
National Convention

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Le Vieux Cordelier targetAudience French revolutionaries
royal white flag of France opposedBy French revolutionaries
Bishop of Liège officeAbolishedBy French Revolutionary authorities
linked to: French revolutionaries
siege of Angers (1793) hasSide French Republicans
linked to: French revolutionaries
Bourbon royal white flag standards opposedBy French revolutionaries
Prüm Abbey secularizedBy French Revolutionary authorities
linked to: French revolutionaries