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Royal leader Charette executed. March 29, 1796
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Napoleon begins to prepare his own Italian campaign. March 27, 1796
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Bonaparte marries Joséphine Beauharnais. March 9, 1796
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Napoleon is named commander–in–chief of all French forces in Italy. March 2, 1796
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Ceremonial destruction of plates used for printing assignats. February 18, 1796
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Diary of a Woman at Fifty 1796
Born in 1770 and married to the only surviving son of one of the greatest noble families in France, the Marquise de la Tour du Pin endured humiliation, emigration, and Terror during the first part of the revolutionary decade. Upon her return to…
Day of 1 Prairial of the Year III 1796
Men and women threaten the deputies on 20 May 1795. They demand "Bread and the Constitution of 1793." This day marked one of the last interventions of ordinary women into national politics.
Louis XVI Stopt [sic] in his Flight at Varennes 1796
This romantic English painting of the King’s flight suggests only a few feet separated the King from escape.
The Fountain of Regeneration 1796
In this engraving of the Festival of Reunion or Unity of 10 August 1793, a female statue of Nature in the form of the Egyptian goddess Isis represents the regeneration of the French people. It sits on the site of the Bastille prison, whose fall…