The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution ... as well as a representative government and equality before the law.

In part 4 of the Great Revolutions series, Dominic Alexander examines the events that led to the French Revolution Part 1: ...

Pérez-Crespo, Carlos 2024. Sieyès’s idea of constituent power: a moderate and illiberal idea of sovereignty in the French revolution. History of European Ideas, Vol. 50, Issue. 6, p. 1029.

The style, with its exaggerated cartoon characters, recalls the French Revolution as depicted by the Horrible Histories. Tom ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... She wanted women to be allowed to vote and be elected to government. She opposed the execution of King Louis XVI and wanted the people ...

Finding the funny in one of Europe’s most violent episodes of political tumult, YESYESNONO’s The Glorious French Revolution ...

A French doctoral student detained in Tunisia returned to Paris on Friday after weeks of top-level diplomatic discussions.

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

The French Revolution embodied, in the eyes of subsequent generations, the emergence of the modern political world. It made possible a new understanding of class politics, secular ideology and ...

the French Revolution didn’t happen in Belfast. MAX: Ah, but in a funny way it did! MAX: It’s 1789 and the people of France are overthrowing the monarchy and government in the name of liberté ...