In a partnership between the Bibliothèque nationale de France and ... says the French Revolution Digital Archive. The documents span the early years of the war, from 1789 to 1794.

Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, one of the key events of the French Revolution. The day has become a national holiday in France. Some 4,300 soldiers ...

Bastille Day or Fête Nationale is celebrated across France on 14 ... of the Bastille prison in 1789 by a mob of Parisians during the opening stages of the French Revolution.

As Manual Valls, the Prime Minister, said recently: “The choice was made by the French Revolution in 1789 to recognise Jews ... conservative, rural France was hostile to the Jews.

Illustration of the storming of the Bastille prison, in an event that has come to be seen as the start of the French Revolution ... on 18th century France. Back in July of 1789, France had ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

How very French. This distinctive French attitude stems from the glorification of the Revolution of 1789, considered the founding of modern France. That the Revolution resulted in the widespread ...

THE REVOLUTIONARY TEMPER: Paris, 1748-1789, by Robert Darnton This year, for the better part of winter, spring and summer, people in France engaged ... the outbreak of the revolution in Paris ...

But as France has been rocked by a series of social ... and the home to French kings until the French Revolution of 1789. “Those down there, they’re the privileged few,” said Mr. Jamet ...

Having unleashed the genie of populist politics, they discovered in 1789 that they could not control it. A revolution is not a single event but a process, one driven in 1790s France as much by ...