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Choose one or more of the projects below to make your own connections to the
French Revolution. Each project can be completed by an individual student or by a small group.
Use the images in this section to create a multimedia exhibit of portraits of Louis XVI,
Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and other key figures in the French Revolution.
Provide a brief biography of each historical figure. You may also want to include paintings of
French Revolution scenes by important revolution-era artists.
- Use the "Links" button to find additional images on the Internet.
- Remember to cite your sources for all images.
Use the Internet and information from the articles in this section to identify
5–10 sites in and around Paris that played important roles in the French Revolution.
Examples include the Bastille, Place de la Révolution/Place de la Concorde, and the
Versailles palace. Download either a contemporary map or a map of Paris in 1789 from the
Internet. Label the map to indicate the historic sites and, wherever possible, the dates
of major events that took place at each location.
- Use "Links" to find additional information on the Internet.
Option: use multimedia software to convert your outline map to an interactive map
so you can add links to useful Web sites and images.
Read the article "Virtue and Terror." Then write an essay that might have appeared
in a radical pamphlet or newspaper published in France during the Revolution.
Your writing should express a strong opinion. Take a clear position in your writing
and support that position with references to the policies and practices of Louis XVI
and others who were seen as enemies of the Revolution.
Read about the Marquis de Lafayette in the article "Rights of Man." Then conduct your
own Internet research on Lafayette. Make an oral presentation in which you describe
the influence that the American Revolution had on Lafayette's political ideals.
Answer the following questions in your presentation:
- How did Lafayette's family background make him an unlikely revolutionary?
- What role did Lafayette play in the French Revolution after his return from the United States?
- How did Lafayette try to implement his political ideas after the revolution?
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