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The Storming of the Bastille was a decisive moment in the early months of the French Revolution (1789-1799). On 14 July 1789, the Bastille, a fortress and political prison symbolizing the oppressiveness of France’s Ancien...

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The arrest of Louis XVI and his family following their failed escape from Paris, 22 June 1791. By Thomas Falcon Marshall, 1854. Oil on canvas.

Louis XVIII of France in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by François Gérard, c. 1814. Hôtel Beauharnais, Paris.

Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre (1754-1793), oil on canvas painting by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, formerly attributed to Antoine-François Callet, c 1774-1776. Palace of Versailles.

Portrait of Louis XVI of France, oil on canvas painting by Antoine-François Callet, 1786. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

A c. 1700 portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud of Louis XIV of France (r. 1643-1715). (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Depicts the return of Louis XVI and his family to Paris after their failed escape, 25 June 1791. By Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, c. 1791.

Louis XVI, king of France and Navarre, wearing his grand royal costume in 1779, oil on canvas by Antoine-François Callet, 1789. Palace of Versailles.