Revolutionary Tradition and Les Mis

 

Revolution 1789

 

People

--The Monarchy

--Desmoulins

--Robespierre

--Danton

--Marat

--Jacobins

--Sans-culottes

--Napoleon

 

Events

--Tennis Court Oath

--Fall of the Bastille

--October Days

--Varennes

--Declaration of War

--Palace Invaded

--Louis XVI

--Reign of Terror

-- Fall of Robespierre

--At war

--Napoleon

 

 

Timeline

 

1789 in Les Miserables

--The Terror

--The People

--The Students

--Revolutionary

--The Monarchy

--Philosophy

 

Monuments

--Elephant

--Bastille

• Kings

--L'arc

--Place de Concord

--Pantheon

• People of

--Tuileries

--Notre Dame

--Elysées

 

Daily Sites

--Restraunts

--Cafes

--Street Names

--Guillotine

• # dead

--Children's Names and Games

 

Works Consulted

Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830

Les Miserables is full of allusions and direct refrences to the French Revolution. These pages disect parts of the novel that pertain to the French Revolution (1789-1799) and explain the connections that Hugo makes between his fictional charachters and events, and those that actually lived. They can be viewed in any order, and all are linked to other pages within the French Revolution Site, so additional information about the events and people describes is at your fingertips. Enjoy!