Path of the Patriots

A Tourist Guide to Paris During the French Revolution

Path of the Patriots comes in two volumes, and and has a total of ten walks. The first four walks are in Volume One, which also gives you an introduction to the revolution through a brief history of what happened, biographies of the people who made it happen, and a description of what the city of Paris looked like during the revolutionary era. In Volume Two there are six more walks that will complete this unique experience of Paris during one of its most dramatic periods of history. Whichever of these two volumes you read, get ready to step into the Revolution that changed the world!

The Walks, Volume I

1. Versailles – an Ending – and a Beginning
The Town of Versailles – Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs – Salles du Jeu-de-Paume – The Château – The Museum – The Gardens – The Trianons.
2. The Cradle of the Revolution
In and around the Palais-Royal and its garden.
3. Saints and Scholars in the Latin Quarter
Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève – Panthéon – Lycée Louis-le-Grand – Place Maubert – Saint-Séverin.
4. Chez Les Cordeliers
Odéon – Saint-Germain – Luxembourg.

The Walks, Volume II

5. From the Temple of Reason to the Temple Prison
Nôtre-Dame – Hôtel-de-Ville – Danton's first walk in Paris – Temple.
6. Ghosts in the Place du Carrousel
The Louvre – Place du Carrousel – The Tuileries.
7. The Route of the Condemned I
Their last look at the City
Palais de Justice – Sainte-Chapelle – Conciergerie – Pont Neuf – Rue Saint-Honoré – Place du Palais-Royal.
8. The Route of the Condemned II
The Guillotine - and after
Rue Saint-Honoré – Place Vendôme – Place de la Concorde – Chapelle Expiatoire – Parc Monceau.
9. Sans-Culottes, the Terror, and a Path of False Hope
Rue Saint-Antoine – Place de Vosges – Bastille – Faubourg Saint-Antoine – Dr Belhomme's Clinic – Place de la Nation – Picpus Cemetery.
10. Power and Glory
Faubourg Saint-Germain – Invalides – Ecole-Militaire – Champ-de-Mars.