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French Revolution

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The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval in France.
single-source Type: DEFINITION Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Revolution is conventionally dated from 1789 to 1799.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The French Revolution ended the absolute Bourbon monarchy.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The French Revolution abolished feudal privileges.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The French Revolution established the First French Republic.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The French Revolution ended with Napoleon Bonaparte's coup of 18 Brumaire.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Napoleon Bonaparte's coup of 18 Brumaire occurred on 9 November 1799.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The causes of the French Revolution remain debated by historians.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The nature of the Terror remains debated by historians.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The Estates-General convened at Versailles on 5 May 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The 5 May 1789 meeting of the Estates-General was its first meeting since 1614.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly on 17 June 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Third Estate swore the Tennis Court Oath on 20 June 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Parisian crowds stormed the Bastille on 14 July 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The National Constituent Assembly decreed the abolition of feudal privileges on the night of 4 August 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was passed on 12 July 1790.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy subordinated the Catholic Church in France to the state.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Louis XVI attempted to flee France.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Louis XVI was stopped at Varennes on 21 June 1791.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The Constitution of 1791 established a constitutional monarchy.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
France declared war on Austria on 20 April 1792.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The monarchy was overthrown in the insurrection of 10 August 1792.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The National Convention proclaimed the abolition of the monarchy on 21 September 1792.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Louis XVI was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Marie Antoinette was executed on 16 October 1793.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The Committee of Public Safety was created on 6 April 1793.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Terror occurred from 1793 to 1794.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
About 16,600 people were executed after death sentences by revolutionary courts during the Terror, according to Donald Greer's statistical study.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Total deaths during the Terror, including prison deaths and summary executions, are estimated at commonly 30,000 to 40,000.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown on 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794).
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Convention first abolished slavery in the French colonies on 4 February 1794 (16 Pluviôse Year II).
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
An uprising in Saint-Domingue began in 1791.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The Directory governed France under the Constitution of Year III from late 1795 until 1799.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The coup of 18–19 Brumaire Year VIII established the Consulate.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution presented it as a bourgeois revolution arising from class conflict.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Lefebvre and Soboul are associated with the Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Revisionist historians disputed the class basis of the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Revisionist historians emphasized political, cultural, and contingent factors in the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Fiscal crisis is cited as a cause of the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The relative weight of the causes of the French Revolution is not settled among historians.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Historians disagree on whether the Terror was a response to circumstances of war and civil war or inherent in revolutionary ideology from 1789.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The position that the Terror was a response to circumstances of war and civil war is associated with Aulard and Mathiez.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The position that the Terror was inherent in revolutionary ideology from 1789 is associated with Furet.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Estimates of deaths in the War in the Vendée range from roughly 120,000 to over 200,000.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Reynald Secher characterized the War in the Vendée as a genocide.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
1799 (Brumaire) is the most common endpoint used for the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Some historians use 1794 (Thermidor) as the endpoint of the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Assessments differ on whether the French Revolution was primarily the origin of modern democracy and human rights or a precursor of modern political violence.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Assessments differ on how far the French Revolution changed French economic and social structures.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
Tocqueville argued for substantial continuity in centralization across the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Claude Opus 4.8 (1.00)
The French Revolution began with the convening of the Estates-General in May 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Revolution concluded with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Revolution resulted in the abolition of the French monarchy.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Revolution resulted in the dismantling of feudal structures.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Revolution resulted in the establishment of a secular republic.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The secular republic established by the French Revolution was characterized by volatile shifts toward authoritarianism and militarism.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Revolution's core principles were articulated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The core principles of the French Revolution profoundly influenced modern political ideologies.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
King Louis XVI convened the Estates-General to address a severe national financial crisis.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Third Estate consisted of commoners.
single-source Type: DEFINITION Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Representatives of the Third Estate asserted their right to draft a new constitution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Storming of the Bastille occurred on July 14, 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Bastille was a medieval armory in Paris.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism in August 1789.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were arrested in August 1792.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French First Republic was officially proclaimed on September 22, 1792.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
King Louis XVI was tried and convicted by the National Convention for high treason.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Reign of Terror lasted from September 1793 to July 1794.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Reign of Terror was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions.
single-source Type: DEFINITION Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Robespierre's execution occurred during the Thermidorian Reaction.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Thermidorian Reaction ended the most radical phase of the Reign of Terror.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Directory assumed executive power in November 1795.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The French Directory ruled France until it was overthrown.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul.
single-source Type: NARRATIVE Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Historians actively debate the primary catalysts of the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Marxist historians traditionally argued the French Revolution was fundamentally a class struggle.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Marxist historians argued a rising capitalist bourgeoisie overthrew a feudal aristocracy during the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Revisionist historians argue the French Revolution was primarily a political and ideological conflict.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Revisionist historians argue the French Revolution was driven by Enlightenment ideas and the breakdown of state structures.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Revisionist historians place less emphasis on inevitable class warfare as a cause of the French Revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The causes and justification of the Reign of Terror remain heavily contested among historians.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Some historians frame the Reign of Terror as a circumstantial necessity to defend the Republic against internal royalist counter-revolutions.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
The War in the Vendée was an internal royalist counter-revolution.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)
Some historians view the Reign of Terror as an inherent, avoidable consequence of the revolution's radical utopian ideology, fanaticism, and systemic paranoia.
single-source Type: FACT Evidence: unproven
AI Panel: 3 AIs · 1 independent source ⓘ
✓ Gemini 2.5 Pro (0.98)

External references: Wikidata Q6534