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Marcellin Marbot
Marbot as a colonel commander of the 7th Hussar Regiment in 1815
Birth name	Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot
Nickname(s)	Marbot the Younger
Born	(1782-08-18)18 August 1782 Altillac, France
Died	16 November 1854(1854-11-16) (aged 72) Paris, France
Buried	Père Lachaise Cemetery
Allegiance	French Republic French Empire Kingdom of France Kingdom of France French Republic
Years of service	1799–1848
Rank	Lieutenant-Général (Divisional general)
Battles / wars	Napoleonic Wars Battle of Marengo Battle of Austerlitz Battle of Eylau Battle of Friedland Siege of Zaragoza Battle of Essling Battle of Wagram Battle of Leipzig Battle of Waterloo Siege of Antwerp French conquest of Algeria
Awards	Order of the Legion of Honour (Grand Officer) Order of Saint Louis (Knight) Order of Leopold (Commander) Order of the Oak Crown (Grand Cross)
Relations	Jean-Antoine Marbot, Divisional general (Father) Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot, Maréchal de camp (Brother) François Certain de Canrobert, Marshal of France (Cousin)
Other work	Member of the Chamber of Peers

Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot (/mɑːrˈboʊ/ mar-BOH, French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ɑ̃twan maʁsəlɛ̃ maʁbo]; 18 August 1782 – 16 November 1854), known as Marcellin Marbot, was a French general, famous for his memoirs depicting the Napoleonic age of warfare. He belongs to a family that has distinguished itself particularly in the career of arms, giving three generals to France in less than 50 years. His elder brother, Adolphe Marbot, was also a general.

Biography

Early life

Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot was born into a family of military nobility in Altillac, in the ancient province of Quercy in southwestern France. He was the younger son of General Jean-Antoine Marbot, former aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-Général de Schomberg, inspector general of the cavalry within the Military household of the king of France.

After studying at the Sorèze Military College (1793–1798), he joined the 1st Hussards Regiment as a volunteer on 3 September 1799. He served under General Jean-Mathieu Seras, who promoted him to the rank of sergeant on 1 December 1799. In the same month, on 31 December 1799, he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in recognition of his courage. He fought with the Army of Italy and took part in the Battle of Marengo and the Siege of Genoa, during which his father, General Jean-Antoine Marbot died.

Having returned to France, he joined the 25th Chasseur Regiment on 11 June 1801 and was detached to the School of Cavalry at Versailles.

Napoleonic wars

He became aide-de-camp to General Pierre Augereau on 31 August 1803 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 11 July 1804. During the war against the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire between 1806 and 1807, he fought in the VII corps of the Grande Armée. Having distinguished himself at the Battle of Austerlitz, he was promoted to the rank of captain on 3 January 1807. The following month, he took part in the Battle of Eylau, during the course of which he nearly lost his life. After this he served in the Peninsular War under Marshals Jean Lannes and André Masséna, and showed himself to be a dashing leader of light cavalry in the Russian campaign of 1812.

On 15 November 1812 he was promoted to the rank of colonel and took part in the German campaign of 1813 as the commander of a cavalry regiment. During the morning of the first day of the Battle of Leipzig, Marbot nearly changed the course of the entire war when his regiment came close to capturing the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I and the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, as they had strayed from their escort. After a slow recovery from the wounds he had received at the battles of Leipzig and Hanau, he took part in the Battle of Waterloo alongside Emperor Napoleon I during the Hundred Days.

After the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, he was exiled during the first years of the Bourbon Restoration and only returned to France in 1819.

July Monarchy

During the July Monarchy, his intimacy with King Louis Philippe I and his son, Prince Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans secured him important military positions. He was promoted to the rank of maréchal de camp (brigadier general), and in this rank he was present at the Siege of Antwerp in 1832.

From 1835 to 1840 he served in various Algerian expeditions, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-général (divisional general) in 1836. In 1845 he was made a member of the Chamber of Peers. Three years later, at the fall of King Louis Philippe I, he retired into private life.

Family

His father, General Jean-Antoine Marbot, had four sons, only two whom reached adulthood: Antoine Adolphe Marcelin, the elder, maréchal de camp (brigadier general) during the July Monarchy, and Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin, the younger. Through his mother, he was the cousin of François Certain de Canrobert, Marshal of France during the Second French Empire.

On 5 November 1811, he married Angélique Marie Caroline Personne-Desbrières (1790–1873), and by this alliance became the owner of the Château du Rancy in Bonneuil-sur-Marne. They had two sons:

• Adolphe Charles Alfred, known as Alfred (1812–1865): Painter, historian and uniformologist.
• Charles Nicolas Marcelin, known as Charles (1820–1882): Whose daughter Marguerite first published her grandfather's famous Memoirs.

Decorations

Marbot received the following decorations:

French Empire

• National Order of the Legion of Honour:
  • Knight: 16 October 1808.
  • Officer: 28 September 1813.

Kingdom of France

• Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis:
  • Knight: 6 June 1827.

Kingdom of France

• Royal Order of the Legion of Honour:
  • Commander: 21 March 1831.
  • Grand Officer: 30 April 1836.

Kingdom of Belgium

• Order of Leopold:
  • Commander: 10 March 1833.

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

• Order of the Oak Crown:
  • Grand Cross: 9 September 1842.

Wounds and injuries

Marbot endured 13 wounds and injuries during his service:

• A bayonet stab to the left arm, received while he was left stunned by the "wind" of a cannonball that had just flown through his bicorn hat, at the Battle of Eylau: 8 February 1807.
• A sword slash to the forehead at Ágreda: 1 November 1808.
• A gunshot through the upper body at the Siege of Zaragoza: 9 February 1809.
• A gunshot to the right thigh at the Battle of Essling: 22 May 1809.
• A gunshot to the left wrist at the Battle of Znaim: 12 July 1809.
• A sword slash to the face and a sword stab to the belly at the Battle of Casal Novo: 14 March 1811.
• A gunshot to the left shoulder at the Battle of Klyastitsy: 31 July 1812.
• A lance stab to the right knee at Plieščanicy: 4 December 1812.
• An arrow hit to the right thigh (fired by Russia's Bashkir horse archers) at the Battle of Leipzig: 18 October 1813.
• A lance stab to the chest at the Battle of Waterloo: 18 June 1815.
• A gunshot to the left knee at Médéa during the Algerian expedition: 12 May 1840.

Literary works

Publications

In exile after the Battle of Waterloo, Marbot returned to France in 1819 and wrote two books:

• Critical remarks on the work of Lieutenant-Général Rogniat, entitled: Considerations on the art of war (1820).
• On the necessity of increasing the military forces of France; means of achieving this in the most cost-efficient way possible (1825).

The first publication was a reply to General Joseph Rogniat's treatise on war, in which Marbot effectively contrasted the human factor in war with Rogniat's pure theory. The second presented his recommendations for the future development of the French Armed Forces.

Napoleon read the first publication while in exile on the island of Saint Helena. His aide-de-camp, General Henri-Gatien Bertrand recorded in his diary on 14 March 1821:

In the evening, the Emperor handed me Marbot's book, and said: "That is the best book I have read for four years. It is the one that has given me the greatest amount of pleasure. He has expressed some things better than I did, he was more familiar with them because, on the whole, he was more of a Corps commander than I. Throughout the book he never refers to 'the Emperor'. He wanted the King of France (Louis XVIII) to give him an appointment with the rank of Colonel; that is quite obvious. He uses 'Emperor' once, so as not to look as though he were afraid to do so, or to appear cowardly, and another time he uses 'Napoleon'. He mentions Masséna and Augereau frequently, and he has described the Battle of Essling better than I could have done it myself . I should have liked to show Marbot my appreciation by sending him a ring. If I ever return to active life, I will have him attached to me as an aide-de-camp .

This publication earned Marbot the distinction of being remembered in Napoleon's will:

To Colonel Marbot, one hundred thousand francs. I recommend him to continue to write in defense of the glory of the French armies, and to confound their calumniators and apostates.

Memoirs

His fame rests chiefly on the Memoirs of his life and campaigns, the Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot, which were written for his children and published posthumously in Paris, in 1891. An English translation by Arthur John Butler was published in London, in 1892. Marbot's Memoirs were widely acclaimed, and Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of them:

The first of all soldier books in the world. There are few books which I could not spare from my shelves better than the Memoirs of the gallant Marbot.

Literary references

Several authors and personalities have cited Marbot and his Memoirs in their works:

• Andrew Lang's collections of stories written by various authors feature selected excerpts from Marbot's Memoirs. Three appear in The Red True Story Book collection (1895): "Marbot's March", "Eylau. The Mare Lisette" and "How Marbot crossed the Danube". Another two appear in The All Sorts of Stories Book collection (1911): "How the Russian Soldier was Saved" and "Marbot and the Young Cossack".
• In Arthur Conan Doyle's novel Through the Magic Door (1907), the author shares his admiration for Marbot's Memoirs with his readers. Doyle also modelled the fictional comedic character of Brigadier Gerard, the most entertaining of all his characters, on a number of real-life sources from the Napoleonic era, among them Marbot.
• In Theodore Roosevelt's writings and public statements, Marbot is cited on two occasions. He is mentioned in Roosevelt's address Biological Analogies in History (1910), delivered at the University of Oxford, and in his publication A Book Lover's Holiday in the Open (1916).
• In Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway (1925), there are several mentions of the protagonist Clarissa Dalloway reading Marbot's Memoirs.
• As with a number of other historical figures, Marbot appears prominently in the Riverworld cycle of science-fiction novels (1967–1983) by Philip José Farmer. Marbot is first featured as the commander of Marines on Sam Clemens' riverboat, the Not for Hire. After the destruction of that boat and the death of its captain, Marbot joins the group led by famed English explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and accompanies him on the journey to the head of the River. Accompanied by his lover, the English author Aphra Behn, Marbot reaches the Tower at the head of the River, only to die in combat when androids based on characters from Alice Through the Looking-Glass attack the guests during a Lewis Carroll-themed party.
• In Marc Bloch's book The Historian's Craft (1949), he uses the story of Marbot crossing the Danube, along with various documentary evidence, as an example of historical criticism unearthing erroneous history-writing, citing sources as wide-ranging as the Commentaries of Julius Caesar and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
• In Ronald Frederick Delderfield's novel To Serve Them All My Days (1972), the protagonist David Powlett-Jones gets comfort from Marbot's Memoirs during his time in the trenches, and again on the death of his wife and daughter in a road accident.

Eponyms

Several places and buildings have been named after Marbot:

• Place Marbot, the central square of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, department of Corrèze, France.
• Avenue des Généraux Marbot, the principal avenue of Altillac, department of Corrèze, France.
• Hôtel Marbot, a château in Tulle, department of Corrèze in France and seat of the Departmental Council of Corrèze.
• Marbot Lake, a lake in Baie-James, Quebec, Canada.
• Marbot, previous name of the town of Tarik Ibn Ziad in Aïn Defla Province, Algeria.

See also

• List of French military leaders
• Napoleonic Wars
• Marbot family
• Jean-Antoine Marbot
• Adolphe Marbot

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Marbot, Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcelin, Baron de". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Rabbe, Alphonse; Vieilh de Boisjolin, Claude-Augustin; Binet de Sainte-Preuve, Charles Claude (1834). "Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Marcelin". Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains (in French). Paris: F. G. Levrault.
• Marbot, Marcellin (1892). The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army. Translated by Butler, Arthur J. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
• Archives nationales (French Ministry of Culture): "Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin". Base Léonore (in French).

Notes

1. "Marcelin" is spelt with one "l" in Marbot's birth certificate and official documents.
2. "Marcellin" is spelt with two "l"s in certain service records and is the spelling used by Marbot. He is also sometimes known as "Jean-Baptiste Marbot".

Citations

1. ^ Archives nationales (French Ministry of Culture). "Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin". Base Léonore (in French).
2. Dawson, Paul L. (2019). Napoleon's Waterloo Army: Uniforms and Equipment. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-5267-0530-3. The regiment was led in 1815 by Colonel Marcelin Marbot, who left a vivid set of memoirs about his military career under Napoleon; these give a picture of the Napoleonic age of warfare .
3. ^ Marbot, Marcellin (1892). "Chapter I: Early Days". The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army. Vol. 1. Translated by Butler, Arthur J. London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 1–8.
4. Rabbe, Alphonse; Vieilh de Boisjolin, Claude-Augustin; Binet de Sainte-Preuve, Charles Claude (1834). "Marbot, Jean Baptiste Marcelin". Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: F. G. Levrault. p. 453.
5. Marbot, Marcellin (1892). "Chapter IX: Siege of Genoa". The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army. Vol. 1. Translated by Butler, Arthur J. London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 69–78.
6. Marbot, Marcellin (1892). "Chapter XVI: Life at the Cavalry School". The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army. Vol. 1. Translated by Butler, Arthur J. London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 126–131.
7. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Marbot, Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcelin, Baron de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 680.
8. Marbot, Marcellin (1892). "Chapter XXXVIII: Incident of the Kolmberg". The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army. Vol. 2. Translated by Butler, Arthur J. London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 391–405.
9. Marbot, Marcellin (1892). "Chapter XIX: Farewell to Masséna". The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army. Vol. 2. Translated by Butler, Arthur J. London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 181–196.
10. Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis (1814–1830). "List of recipients" (in French). Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin. 6 June 1827. Knight.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
11. "Règne de Léopold I. – An 1833.". Pasinomie, ou Collection complète des Lois, Décrets, Arrêtés, Avis du Conseil d'État et Règlements Généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique (in French). Brussels: H. Tarlier. 1833. p. 111. 10 March 1833. – N. 425. – Ordinance containing the French decorated with the Order of Leopold on the occasion of the Antwerp Citadel. Marbot, aide-de-camp to HRH The Duke of Orléans. Baudrand, aide-de-camp to HRH The Duke of Orléans.
12. "France. Paris, 16 avril". Journal des débats politiques et littéraires (in French). Paris. 17 April 1833. p. 1 – via Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France). We receive an official report of the appointments made in Belgium to different ranks of the Order of Leopold in favor of the French army. Are appointed Commanders: Generals Dejean, Jamia, Fabre, Achard, T. Sébastiani, Gentil-Saint-Alphonse, Schramm, Marbot, Baudrand, Rumigny, Harlet, Latour-Maubourg, de Riguy, Georges, Simonneau, Lawoestine, Rullière, Durocheret, d'Hincourt, Laffaille, Auvray and Gourgaud.
13. Guyot, Amédée; Scribe, Théodore (1846). "Ordres étrangers. Français décorés d'Ordres étrangers.". Almanach Royal et National pour l'an MDCCCXLVI, Présenté à Leurs Majestés et aux Princes et Princesses de la Famille Royale (in French). Paris: Guyot et Scribe. p. 345. Netherlands. Order of the Oak Crown. Grand Crosses. Baron Achard, Peer, Lieutenant-General. Baron Marbot, Peer, Lieutenant-General.
14. Schroell, Joseph Antoine (17 September 1842). "Frankreich". Diekircher Wochenblatt (in German). No. 38. Diekirch. p. 2 – via eLuxemburgensia (National Library of Luxembourg). Paris, 9th Sept. The King of the Netherlands (and Grand Duke of Luxembourg) has awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown to the Adjutant of the Count of Paris, Lieutenant-General Marbot.
15. Marbot, Marcellin (1820). Remarques critiques sur l'ouvrage de M. le lieutenant-général Rogniat, intitulé: Considérations sur l'art de la guerre (in French). Paris: Anselin et Pochard.
16. Marbot, Marcellin (1825). De la nécessité d'augmenter les forces militaires de la France; moyen de le faire au meilleur marché possible (in French). Paris: Anselin et Pochard.
17. Bertrand, Henri-Gratien; Fleuriot de Langle, Paul (1952). Napoleon at St. Helena, The Journals of General Bertrand, January–May 1821. Translated by Hume, Frances. New York: Doubleday.
18. Bonaparte, Napoleon (15 April 1821). "Napoleon's Will and Testamemt". Longwood, Island of St. Helena. Retrieved 1 October 2021 – via Fondation Napoléon.
19. Marbot, Marcellin (1892). The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army. Translated by Butler, Arthur J. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 2 volumes.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
20. ^ Doyle, Arthur Conan (1907). "Chapter VIII". Through the Magic Door (published 2002) – via Project Gutenberg.
21. Lang, Andrew, ed. (1895). "Marbot's March". The Red True Story Book (published 2008). p. 150 – via Project Gutenberg.
22. Lang, Andrew, ed. (1895). "Eylau. The Mare Lisette". The Red True Story Book (published 2008). p. 162 – via Project Gutenberg.
23. Lang, Andrew, ed. (1895). "How Marbot crossed the Danube". The Red True Story Book (published 2008). p. 175 – via Project Gutenberg.
24. Lang, Andrew, ed. (1911). "How the Russian Soldier was Saved". The All Sorts of Stories Book. London: Longmans, Green and Co. p. 99.
25. Lang, Andrew, ed. (1911). "Marbot and the Young Cossack". The All Sorts of Stories Book. London: Longmans, Green and Co. p. 105.
26. Doyle, Arthur Conan (1903). "Preface". The Adventures of Gerard (published 2008) – via Project Gutenberg.
27. Roosevelt, Theodore (1910). "Biological Analogies in History". African and European Addresses (published 2004) – via Project Gutenberg.
28. Roosevelt, Theodore (1916). "Chapter IX: Books for Holidays in the Open". A Book Lover's Holiday in the Open (published 2010) – via Project Gutenberg.
29. Woolf, Virginia (1925). Mrs Dalloway (published 2002) – via Project Gutenberg.
30. Farmer, Philip José (1967–1983). Riverworld cycle of science-fiction novels. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
31. Bloch, Marc (1949). The Historian's Craft. New York: Knopf (published 1953). OL 6114394M.
32. Delderfield, Ronald Frederick (1972). To Serve Them All My Days. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

External links

• "Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin". Base Léonore (in French).
• Works by Marcellin Marbot at HathiTrust.
• Works by Marcellin Marbot at Open Library.
• Works by Marcellin Marbot at Project Gutenberg.

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Other significant figures and factions Patriotic Society of 1789 Jean Sylvain Bailly Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Isaac René Guy le Chapelier Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Nicolas de Condorcet Feuillants and monarchiens Grace Elliott Arnaud de La Porte Jean-Sifrein Maury François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas Antoine Barnave Lafayette Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth Charles Malo François Lameth André Chénier Jean-François Rewbell Camille Jordan Madame de Staël Boissy d'Anglas Jean-Charles Pichegru Pierre Paul Royer-Collard Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac Girondins Jacques Pierre Brissot Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière Madame Roland Father Henri Grégoire Étienne Clavière Marquis de Condorcet Charlotte Corday Marie Jean Hérault Jean Baptiste Treilhard Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve Jean Debry Olympe de Gouges Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux The Plain Abbé Sieyès de Cambacérès Charles-François Lebrun Pierre-Joseph Cambon Bertrand Barère Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot Philippe Égalité Louis Philippe I Mirabeau Antoine Christophe Merlin de Thionville Jean Joseph Mounier Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours François de Neufchâteau Montagnards Maximilien Robespierre Georges Danton Jean-Paul Marat Camille Desmoulins Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Paul Barras Louis Philippe I Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau Jacques-Louis David Marquis de Sade Georges Couthon Roger Ducos Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois Jean-Henri Voulland Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier Jean-Pierre-André Amar Prieur de la Côte-d'Or Prieur de la Marne Gilbert Romme Jean Bon Saint-André Jean-Lambert Tallien Pierre Louis Prieur Antoine Christophe Saliceti Hébertists and Enragés Jacques Hébert Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Charles-Philippe Ronsin Antoine-François Momoro François-Nicolas Vincent François Chabot Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel François Hanriot Jacques Roux Stanislas-Marie Maillard Charles-Philippe Ronsin Jean-François Varlet Theophile Leclerc Claire Lacombe Pauline Léon Gracchus Babeuf Sylvain Maréchal Others Figures Charles X Louis XVI Louis XVII Louis XVIII Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien Louis Henri, Prince of Condé Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé Marie Antoinette Napoléon Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte Joseph Bonaparte Joseph Fesch Joséphine de Beauharnais Joachim Murat Jean Sylvain Bailly Jacques-Donatien Le Ray Guillaume-Chrétien de Malesherbes Talleyrand Thérésa Tallien Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target Catherine Théot Madame de Lamballe Madame du Barry Louis de Breteuil de Chateaubriand Jean Chouan Loménie de Brienne Charles Alexandre de Calonne Jacques Necker Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil List of people associated with the French Revolution Factions Jacobins Cordeliers Panthéon Club Social Club
Influential thinkers Les Lumières Beaumarchais Edmund Burke Anacharsis Cloots Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Pierre Claude François Daunou Diderot Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Antoine Lavoisier Montesquieu Thomas Paine Jean-Jacques Rousseau Abbé Sieyès Voltaire Mary Wollstonecraft
Cultural impact La Marseillaise Cockade of France Flag of France Liberté, égalité, fraternité Marianne Muscadin Bastille Day Panthéon French Republican calendar Metric system Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Cult of the Supreme Being Cult of Reason Temple of Reason Sans-culottes Phrygian cap Women in the French Revolution Incroyables and merveilleuses Symbolism in the French Revolution Historiography of the French Revolution Influence of the French Revolution Films

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