This Jackdaw effectively teaches the story of the Revolution from events leading up to the storming of the Bastille by the people of Paris to the complicated government and terror of the “Revolutionary Tribunal” that followed. Hands-on replicas of key historical documents — eyewitness accounts, London newspaper report, copies and translations of “The Declaration of Rights” and “Law of Suspects,” and even a poster with grisly details of “La Guillotine” and the fate of Louis XVI ¾ transport students to France during this turbulent time. Historian: Robert Lacey. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

• The “Ancien Régime”: the situation in France prior to storming the Bastille.
• A chronology with quotes from eyewitnesses.
• Letter from the Marquis of Breze to the Third Estate.
• An account from the London Chronicle of July 21 to 23, 1789.
• The Bastille: a contemporary plan, illustrations and eyewitness accounts of its fall.
• Pages from “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,” November 3, 1789, in French, with a translation.
• Voting list on Louis XVI’s death, including the signatures of Robespierre, Danton, Marat, Desmoulins, David and Thomas Paine, with comments.
• Poster “Massacre of French King” published in England, 1793.
• Decree of the National Convention instituting “Law of Suspects,” September 1793.
• Portrait gallery.