Reign of Terror 2018. https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2018/04/10/battle-of-valmy-20-september-1792/. Bloy, Marjorie. "The First Coalition 1793-1797." A Web of English History. Accessed October 21, 2018. http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/france/coalit1.htm. Leopold, II, and Frederick William. "The Declaration of Pillnitz (1791)." French Revolution. February 27, 2018. Accessed October 26, 2018. https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/declaration-of-pillnitz-1791/. McLetchie, Scott. "Maximilien Robespierre, Master of the Terror." Maximilien Robespierre, Master of the Terror. Accessed October 23, 2018. http://people.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1983-4/mcletchie.htm#22. Montesquieu. "Modern History Sourcebook: Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748." Internet History Sourcebooks. Accessed October 23, 2018. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/montesquieu-spirit.asp. Ozouf, Mona. "War and Terror in French Revolutionary Discourse (1792-1794)." "The Journal of Modern History" 56, no. 4 (1984): 580-97. http://www.jstor.org.du.idm.oclc.org/stable/1880323. Popkin, Jeremy D.
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey to soak up blood, and the white dress were devices used by the artist to make the observer suppose what would happen to them next. The painting was made after the July Revolution of 1830 which deposed Charles X of France, the last of the French Bourbon monarchs. Charles X's brother was Louis XVI of France whose throne was usurped and who was executed during the French Revolution. It is also redolent of the execution of Marie-Antoinette. Unsurprisingly, the emotive painting caused something of a sensation. The painting was highly popular in the Paris salon when it was first exhibited