TV and films:
La Révolution (trailer) terrible but nicely shot French historical urban fantasy that says the Revolution was due to the aristocracy planning to become vampires in a very 90s sourcebook kind of way
Les Misérables, which has overtaken A Tale of Two Cities as the most famous story about a French revolution but not that one
Marie Antoinette (the current series) for the backstabbing court intrigue side (which means I’ve seen Gaia Weiss as a hero of La Révolution and a scheming courtier here)
Chevalier for a bit of earlier grounding (with some of the same people on different sides of who we should like)
Podcast:
Revolutions by Mike Duncan
Songs:
La Marseillaise (here performed by Axelle Saint-Cirel for the 2024 Olympics) composed in 1792 and adopted as the national anthem in 1795
Gojira, Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!), riffing on a Revolutionary song about hanging aristocrats
Les Misérables, One Day More and Do You Hear The People Sing? and probably On My Own for extra sads
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Heads Will Roll
Grabyourface, Guillotine
Other games:
Assassin’s Creed Unity which takes the bold but weird choice of having some of the Templars backing the Revolution after the trailers all had Assassins leading it, as it uses the Revolution as a backdrop for a cross-faction romance or something, which interesting but maybe choose a time other than one where autocracy and anarchy clash most directly especially as you seem to be doing a swashbuckling hero better suited to the Three Musketeers time
RPG sourcebooks:
Chronicles Of Darkness: Dark Eras - The Reign of Terror
Call of Cthulhu: Reign Of Terror
GURPS Scarlet Pimpernel to show that not all Revolution RPG books are called Reign of Terror, just the horror ones
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