The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ... and launched his artistic career during the tumultuous years before the French Revolution. Lethière’s talent as a painter of portraits of the rich ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens ... marking the practical beginning of the Revolution. The spark that ...