Louis XVI in coronation robes
Arras ‘city of a hundred steeples’ in the mid-eighteenth century
Robespierre’s house in Arras, where he lived as a young lawyer
Robespierre as a young man in the costume of a delegate to the Third Estate
Robespierre’s sister Charlotte, who kept house for him before he left Arras
The procession of the opening of the Estates General at Versailles
The Tennis Court Oath
The Siege of the Bastille
Inside the Jacobin Club
Robespierre in his room at the Duplays
Robespierre: Incorruptible Legislator
The Triumvirs: Rœderer-Pétion-Robespierre, who remained in the Jacobin Club after it split in 1791
Eléonore Duplay: a self-portrait
The execution of Louis XVI
The Departments of France created during the Revolution
Louis Lafitte: The Twelve Revolutionary Months: Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivôse, Pluviôse, Ventôse, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor
Robespierre at the Tribune
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on a playing card of 1793
‘All mortals are born equal, it is virtue that makes the difference,’ 1793
The Desmoulins family: Robespierre’s godson Horace at the centre
Marat – L’Ami du Peuple
Saint Just: ‘The words we have spoken will never be forgotten on earth.’
Danton with his hands tied on his way to execution
The destruction of the statue of Atheism at the Festival of the Supreme Being
French surveillance by air-balloon at the Battle of Fleurus
Robespierre in the Convention, 9 Thermidor
Robespierre lying wounded in the antechamber of the Committee of Public Safety
Insurrectionary summons to the Section des Piques – Robespierre’s final, incomplete, signature