Happy 14 juillet! Thread of a few Revolutionary sites in and around Paris:

Salle du jeu de paume, Versailles, site of the Tennis Court Oath of 20 June 1789. Today it's a museum.

Photo: Oakenchips (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Place de la Bastille, site of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Long a busy roundabout, this square was reorganised last year. Pedestrians can now safely walk up to the July Column (erected after the July Revolution of 1830).

Photo: Jean-Louis Zimmermann (CC BY 2.0)

The Hôtel de Ville. At least 6000 people, mostly women from the marketplaces angry at the price of bread, converged here before marching to Versailles on 5 October 1789.

The square in front of the city hall was also a busy roundabout before its pedestrianisation in 1982.

The Palace of Versailles. After gathering in Paris, the women marched here, joined by some 15000 National Guardsmen and thousands more civilians, to bring the king to Paris.

Photo: Dineshraj Goomany (CC BY-SA 2.0)

The Champ de Mars, site of the Fête de la Fédération on 14 July 1790. This was a powerful show of national unity. But that unity would soon dissolve. On 17 July 1791 it was the site of a massacre of republicans; on 12 November 1793 former mayor Bailly was guillotined there.

The Jardin des Tuileries, formerly the garden of the royal palace where Louis XVI lived after being brought back to the city. On 10 August 1792 this was stormed, the king deposed and a republic established.

Photo: Marie Villajos (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The Square du Temple, site of the tower where the royal family was subsequently imprisoned. Having become a pilgrimage spot for monarchists longing for a restoration, it was destroyed by Napoleon in 1808. The park was created in 1857, during the reign of his nephew Napoleon III.

The Place de la Concorde, then Place de la Révolution, where the king met the guillotine on 21 January 1793. Marie Antoinette met the same fate there the following October, as did over 1000 others during the Reign of Terror, and finally Maximilien Robespierre on 28 July 1794.

I'll end with this building, witness to so many great Parisian events. Briefly rededicated to the Cult of Reason and later the Cult of the Supreme Being, the Notre Dame eventually became the site of Napoleon I's coronation as emperor, bringing the revolution to a definitive end.