The French Revolution (1789-1799) lasted until the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Years of medieval oppression and financial mismanagement led the French people to want changes in ...

By 1789 France was broke ... ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system ...

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 ...

Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist and author of the early science fiction novel L’an 2440, claimed that only a small ...

In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned representatives ... and the event is now remembered as one of the pivotal events of the French Revolution. Over the 10 years of upheaval that followed, France ...

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of King Louis XVI to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...

Overtaking the Bastille, a fortress prison and symbol of the monarchy’s power, was a turning point in the French Revolution (1789–99). This etching of the successful rebellion is the only print made ...

Michelet understood the French Revolution as a collective triumph; he describes it as the destruction of a world built up by centuries of oppression, and the creation of a new order, for the ...

By Caroline Weber Caroline Weber is a professor of French and comparative literature ... he presents the outbreak of the revolution in Paris in 1789 as the culmination of 40 years’ worth of ...