Images of the French Revolution, battling the ancien régime: The common people arise against the degenerate aristocracy and monarchy, whose end has come. The passion of the French revolutionaries, it should be noted, helped spark the bloody but successful slave rebellion in Haiti.



Liberty Leading the People, by Eugene Delacroix



Prise_de_la_Bastille (Storming of the Bastille), by Jean-Pierre Houël


La Bastille dans les prémiers jours de sa demolition [The Bastille Early in Its Demolition], by Hubert Robert

These are all shared images from http://www.Photobucket.com. I don't know the names of the following four paintings offhand, but maybe some of you, the viewers, do. If so, let me know: