During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

Though Marie Antoinette may not have actually said, “Let them eat cake,” the French monarchy and aristocracy displayed an ...

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Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife ... s story in France had begun just a few years prior. In late 1789, during a discussion about reforming the French penal ...

Causes and the social and political effects of the French Revolution, the Revolutions of 1848, and the Industrial Revolution. Particular attention to the process of revolutionary change and to ...

Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will call for a "revolution of common sense" during his inaugural address, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday citing excerpts of his ...

Yet, back in 2005, historian and French Revolution specialist Pierre Serna identified, in La République des girouettes. 1789-1815 et au-delà. Une anomalie politique : la France de l'extrême ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed ... of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order. The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary that ...

Where the kings of France are concerned, a focus must always fall upon the French Revolution, the most monumental regicide in history. I was surprised, therefore, that the revolution was mentioned ...

Even though the Revolutionary War was and is one of the most important events in the history of the United States, it has relatively rarely been imagined on-screen. Perhaps this is because the ...