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Women’s March on Versailles

HAPPY 14th JULY 🇫🇷🇫🇷💥

[joyeuse fête nationale à tous ✨🇫🇷💥]

(edited version - pls. use this list only)

(from Bastille to Tuileries)

It's finally here!

Tomorrow begins the summer challenge for all writers and artists who love the French Revolution and want to have a little fun.

This summer, like every year, we will have several events to remember. Some of them bring us joy and others sorrow.

So, let's be creative and share with others our deepest feelings about these events.

For those who don't yet know how it works, I'll summarize it.

The challenge runs from July 14th to August 10th, which are important milestones for anyone interested in the revolution.

We've compiled the prompts you've sent me into the list above - one for each day. Choose any one of them that inspires you and write fiction or poetry, or draw a picture and post it on your blog. You can choose one prompt each day or contribute just once.

Nothing is mandatory, we want you to have fun.

To help us all enjoy it, please tag your posts with:

#frevsummer2026

If you have any questions, please message me.

The agitators, paid to raise a clamor against the patriots of the Cordeliers Club, were merely waiting for a pretext. Danton — the vigorous Danton — gave them one during the first intermission by keeping his hat on. Since no law forbade the wearing of hats, and no decree had enshrined the servile custom of remaining bareheaded when actors were not on stage, Danton saw no reason to obey the imperious commands of those automatons who sought to perpetuate this servile habit — a relic of the Ancien Régime. For a few days, I saw a multitude of deluded citizens siding against Danton; they loudly criticized him for wishing to exercise the rights of a free man, arguing that one must respect custom and avoid setting an example of insubordination. Good heavens! Had such a disastrous maxim always been followed, what people would ever have broken their chains, and how could we ourselves have cast off the yoke? Given the fatal inclination toward servitude found in almost all men, what would become of nations were there not, in their midst, a few bold spirits — men intrepid enough to trample upon the orders of despots, raise the standard of insurrection, assault the ramparts of tyranny, and be the first to storm the breach?

Marat in number 504 of l’Ami du Peuple (June 28 1791)

AKA the difference between Marat and Robespierre in a nutshell:

This one is Low-key scary tbh.

Normal-ish. Ish.

Aaaand I have no idea who the last guy is

Bonus:

. Hébert

Mm this feels like it's missing half the collection

Aaaaaand the royals. Wasn't sure about including those but whatever.

"One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper."