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Religious elements that long stood as symbols of stability for the French people, were replaced by views on reason and scientific thought. [32] [33] The radical revolutionaries and their supporters desired a cultural revolution that would rid the French state of all Christian influence. [34]
People executed during the French Revolution (1 C, 12 P) F. French clergy killed in the French Revolution (20 P) M. Massacres of the French Revolution (2 C, 9 P) P.
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.
The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution.
Day of 21 January 1793 – the death of Louis Capet at the Place de la Révolution, by Charles Monnet (1794). Louis XVI, former King of France since the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, were cast into the river Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the drownings ceased, as many as ...
Pages in category "People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .