François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, Count of the Empire was a French writer, lawyer and politician during the Revolution and the Empire.
François Boissy d'Anglas by François Dumont (1795, Louvre Palace)
Boissy d'Anglas in his youth.
Boissy saluting Féraud's head by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (1831)
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The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799. Many of the revolut
François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas
…François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, Count of the Empire (1756–1826) was a French writer, lawyer and politician during the Revolution and the Empire. Born to a Protestant family in Saint-Jean-Chambre, Ardèche, he studied Law and, after literary attempts, became a lawyer to the parlement…
The Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789
Caricature of the Third Estate carrying the First Estate (clergy) and the Second Estate (nobility) on its back
Le Serment du Jeu de paume by Jacques-Louis David (c. 1791), depicting the Tennis Court Oath
The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the iconic event of the Revolution, still commemorated each year as Bastille Day