Memorials & famous biographies

French aristocrat who assassinated radical Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat to halt the French Revolution's escalating violence

French revolutionary, writer, and salonnière whose intelligence and political acumen influenced the Girondin faction, leaving a legacy through her insightful memoirs

French playwright and political activist who championed women's rights and abolitionism, famously authoring the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

Physician, politician, and radical journalist during the French Revolution, known for his publication L'Ami du peuple and defense of the sans-culottes

Italian playwright and librettist celebrated for his witty comedies that mirrored the lives and values of 18th-century Venetian society

The last King of France before the French Revolution, reigning as King of France and Navarre, and later King of the French, during a period of immense political and social change

Last Queen of France before the French Revolution, executed during the Reign of Terror in 1793