French Revolution Primary Source Documents

The Marseillaise Audio and Lyrics

What is the Third Estate? Abbe Sieyes

The Tennis Court Oath

Assembly of Colonists Vincent Ogé the Younger

Society of the Friends of the Blacks Address to the National Assembly

On Giving Women the Right of Citizenship by Condorcet

Decree Abolishing Feudalism

The Riots of July 14

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

The Constitution of 1791

Declearation of the Rights of Woman by Olympe de Gouges

Justification of the Use of Terror by Maximilien Robespierre

The Law of Suspects

Henry Edgeworth's Account of the Execution of Louis XVI

Women's March to Versailles primary source image

Le Defecit Financial Crisis primary source image (cartoon)

The Storming of the Bastille primary source image painting

The Three Estates in the Old Regime 1789 primary source image (cartoon)

The Three Estates after the Constitution of 1791 primary source image (cartoon)

Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix primary source image

Concordat of 1801 Text