Film Clips from Renoir's
La Marseillaise
(1938)
Versailles, July 14, 1789: Louis XVI asks whether the taking of the Bastille is a revolt?
Patriots in the hills near Marsailles
Avoid bloodshed. Surrender!
Arnaud explains the meaning of Nation
Marseillais, 1792: A Dockworker speaks out for law and order
Citizeness at the tribune of the Jacobin Club of Marseilles
Mixture of classes and genders at the Jacobin Club
Conservative bourgeoisie ejected from the Jacobin Club
Coblenz, 1792: Aristocratic emigres debate the meaning of "the people" and "The Nation"
Bomier enlists
Volunteers of Marseilles depart, singing
Leaner to be a soldie
r
Louis XVI reads the Brunswick Manifesto
Paris, August 10, 1792: The commander of the Marseillais batallion prepares his troops for actio
n
Paris, the Tuillerie Palace, August 10, 1792: Roederer, the Attorney General for Paris,
comes to escort the King and Royal Family to safet
y
The battle of Valmy, September 22, 1792: the battle for liberty