Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon

Examine a crucial turning point for humanity-the French Revolution and its aftermath-in which common people threw off the shackles of oppression and seized freedom.

• By This Professor
• 01: Introduction and the Old Regime Monarchy
• 02: Privilege-Old Regime Society
• 03: The Enlightenment
• 04: France, Global Commerce, and Colonization
• 05: American Revolution and the Economic Crisis
• 06: The Political Awakening of 1789
• 07: July 14th-Storming the Bastille
• 08: Peasant Revolt and the Abolition of Feudalism
• 09: The Declaration of the Rights of Man
• 10: Paris Commands Its King
• 11: Political Apprenticeship in Democracy
• 12: Religion and the Early Revolution
• 13: The Revolution and the Colonies
• 14: Women's Rights in the Early Revolution
• 15: The King's Flight
• 16: Foreign Reactions-A Divided Europe
• 17: The Path to War with Europe
• 18: Overthrowing the Monarchy
• 19: The King's Trial
• 20: The Republic at War
• 21: Revolutionary Culture and Festivals
• 22: Family and Marriage
• 23: Slave Revolt and the Abolition of Slavery
• 24: Counterrevolution and the Vendee
• 25: The Pressure Cooker of Politics
• 26: Revolution in Crisis-Summer 1793
• 27: Terror Is the Order of the Day
• 28: The Revolution Devours Her Children
• 29: The Overthrow of Robespierre
• 30: The Thermidorian Reaction
• 31: The Directory-An Experimental Republic
• 32: Young Napoleon
• 33: The Italian Campaign and the Sister Republics
• 34: Sister Republics? France and America
• 35: Bonaparte in Egypt
• 36: Bonaparte Seizes Power
• 37: Building Power-General and First Consul
• 38: Napoleon Becomes Emperor
• 39: Napoleon's Ambitions in the New World
• 40: Taking on the Great Powers
• 41: Expanding the Empire
• 42: France during the Empire
• 43: Living under the Empire
• 44: The Russian Campaign
• 45: Napoleon's Fall and the Hundred Days
• 46: Waterloo and Beyond
• 47: Emerging Political Models
• 48: Revolutionary Legacies