Château de Vizille

 Jacques and Quan brought me to visit this Vizille castle next to my city Grenoble. Turned out, I learned so many interesting events related to the French Revolution and discovered that my city was actually one of the important cities leading the French Revolution. 

Chatêau de Vizille

View from the castle

Representatives from the noble, the clergy and the rest discussing 
about putting in place a French constitution 

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen published 
after the French Revolution in the year 1789



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