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May 5, 2024 · Liberté, égalité, fraternité (pronounced: [libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite]), French for "liberty, equality, fraternity", [1] is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto.
May 22, 2024 · Text. A Paris political society that had a more popular orientation than the Jacobins. Officially named the Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and Citizen, it met in a former Franciscan monastery on the rue des Cordeliers. Although expelled from the building, the club kept the nickname.
3 days ago · The tri-colored French flag was reinstituted after WWII because Free France fought for liberty, equality, and fraternity, similar to what their revolutionary ancestors fought for in the French liberation in the French Revolution. Free France Liberation Flag used in Caen. Image by Olivier Touzeau, 18 April 2021.
3 days ago · Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. This is a brief but comprehensive overview of the French Revolution from its social causes through the Napoleonic experience. The straightforward design allows readers to explore various aspects of the Revolution and access more than 600 primary source documents.
May 18, 2024 · This festival was a powerful counterpoint to those who believed that the social question ultimately would undermine the French Revolution. Isidore-Stanislas Helman (engraver), Antoine-Jean Duclos (engraver), and Charles Monnet (designer), “General Federation of the French,” 1790, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
5 days ago · In July and August, cities and towns throughout France imitated Paris, setting up their troops of the National Guard. The guard chose to “federate” and through an invitation of the Paris Commune, representatives of the regular army and municipal National Guards met in Paris on 14 July 1790. This festival of the federation was one of the ...
4 days ago · This body came into being on 17 June 1789, with the renaming of the Estates-General on the motion of the abbé Sieyès. The renaming was effectively a claim that this new body was now sovereign. Initially, it comprised the members of the Third Estate and a few liberal nobles and clergy.
