marked the complete end of the absolute monarchy in France
shocked the world, with many thinking that France would descend to anarchy
Establishment of the CPS
April 1793, CPS established
they ruled France like a dictatorship between September 1793 and Robespierre's death in 1794
before it was a very good committee, until Robespierre's election into it in July led it down the route of authoritarianism
The Death of Marat
Radical-left journalist Jean-Paul Marat is murdered in the bath by Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday
13th July, 1793
she was tried and guillotined just 4 days later
The Death of Marie Antoinette
Tried and executed: 14th October, 1793
her head was chopped clean off
shows how ruthless the CPS were
she did not need to die as the King was already dead, but she was killed anyway
Law of Suspects
Introduced September 17
permitted the rapid arrest, trial and execution of any "suspected" counter-revolutionaries
once someone was put on trial, they were judged by radicals and so most put on trial were found guilty and executed
many argue it was the real beginning of the Terror
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
