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The 418 pages that link to French Revolution, each with the reason it gives.

• Claude Louis BertholletRelated: The Revolution reshaped Berthollet’s public service, scientific institutions, and political career.

• Fête galanteRelated: The Revolution transformed the aristocratic world whose leisure fête galante had idealized.

• French theaterRelated: Revolutionary laws ended royal control of theaters and opened Parisian stages to new companies and subjects.

• GendarmerieRelated: Revolutionary reforms reorganized the Maréchaussée as the national Gendarmerie.

• Hippolyte TaineRelated: Taine’s account treated revolutionary violence as the outcome of accumulated historical and social conditions.

• Jean-Honoré FragonardRelated: The Revolution weakened the aristocratic patronage on which much of Fragonard’s career had depended.

• Optical telegraphRelated: Revolutionary France sought rapid communications for military and governmental decisions.

• Political pamphletRelated: Pamphlets and other printed polemics helped contest royal authority and shape revolutionary opinion.

• Treaty of Alliance (1778)Related: The war’s fiscal burden contributed to the financial crisis preceding the Revolution.

• Alexander RadishchevRelated: Its outbreak heightened official fears about writings that condemned autocracy and social injustice.

• André RigaudRelated: Its struggles over citizenship and slavery reshaped authority in Saint-Domingue.

• Bourbon dynastyRelated: It abolished the Bourbons’ first period of rule.

• Francisco de MirandaRelated: Miranda fought in its armies and entered its political life.

• François-René de ChateaubriandRelated: Revolution and its aftermath shaped his exile, politics, and historical writing.

• French journalismRelated: Revolutionary press freedoms and political newspapers transformed public debate.

• Friedrich HölderlinRelated: Its promise of liberty and its violence informed the political hopes surrounding Hölderlin’s early work.

• Hall of MirrorsRelated: The revolution ended the royal court culture for which the gallery had been built.

• HectareRelated: Revolutionary reforms created the setting for France’s new metric system.

• KilometreRelated: Revolutionary France initiated the project that established the metric system.

• Legal historyRelated: Revolutionary reforms abolished inherited privileges and promoted uniform legal citizenship.

• Marquis de CondorcetRelated: The Revolution turned Condorcet's reformist ideas into urgent questions of constitutional power.

• Marquis de SadeRelated: The Revolution briefly altered de Sade’s fortunes and the political setting of his writing.

• Pasquale PaoliRelated: Paoli returned to Corsica during the Revolution, when its political upheaval briefly reopened his public career.

• ExtremismRelated: The political language of extremes gained prominence amid revolutionary conflict and factional struggle.

• French Armed ForcesRelated: Revolutionary mass mobilization helped establish the model of a national army.

• Joseph Marie JacquardRelated: Jacquard’s early career unfolded amid revolutionary conflict and political change.

• Karl August von HardenbergRelated: Its political upheaval shaped Hardenberg’s early career and the reform ideas he later pursued.

• Rose BertinRelated: The revolution disrupted the court economy on which Bertin’s royal business relied.

• AristocracyRelated: It dismantled legal privileges that had sustained the French aristocracy.

• French architectureRelated: It transformed ownership, use, and preservation of religious and royal buildings.

• Left-wing politicsRelated: The seating of revolutionaries on the assembly’s left helped establish the political label.

• Liberty Leading the PeopleRelated: The painting’s imagery echoes revolutionary symbols associated with the earlier upheaval.

• LitreRelated: The metric system, including the litre’s predecessor definition, emerged from revolutionary-era reforms.

• RoyalismRelated: Its overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy made royalist resistance a major political force.

• The Hunchback of Notre-DameRelated: Its attacks on churches and monuments informed Hugo’s concern for architectural heritage.

• The TygerRelated: Its era of violence and radical change informs historical readings of the poem’s fearsome energy.

• Traditionalist conservatismRelated: Its rapid institutional rupture became a central warning in traditionalist political argument.

• 18th centuryRelated: Its attack on monarchy and inherited privilege became a defining late-century rupture.

• Claude-Nicolas LedouxRelated: Revolutionary hostility to tax farming led to Ledoux’s imprisonment and disrupted his commissions.

• Condorcet's jury theoremRelated: Condorcet’s later political work pursued institutional reforms amid the revolution that followed his theorem.

• Democracy in AmericaRelated: Tocqueville compares America’s democratic development with France’s more turbulent revolutionary path.

• Éleuthère Irénée du PontRelated: Revolutionary instability helped prompt the du Pont family's departure from France.

• Élisabeth Vigée Le BrunRelated: Its threat to royalist associates forced Vigée Le Brun to leave France.

• Georg BüchnerRelated: Its leaders and violence supply the historical material for Danton’s Death.

• Germaine de StaëlRelated: The Revolution shaped Staël’s political commitments and repeatedly disrupted her life.

• Jean-Baptiste SayRelated: The Revolution shaped Say’s political commitments and early public career.

• Journal des sçavansRelated: Revolutionary change disrupted the journal’s publication and altered its institutional setting.

• Mont-Saint-MichelRelated: Revolutionary authorities suppressed the abbey and repurposed it as a prison.

• NostradamusRelated: Later interpreters linked several ambiguous verses to revolutionary events.

• Romain RollandRelated: Rolland’s drama Danton stages conflicts among leaders of the Revolution.