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

The work of Timothy Tackett on the French Revolution has made him one of its most influential recent historians. As long ago as 1986 he produced a still-definitive analysis of the first and deepest ...

On 5 August 2024, the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India in the face of a nationwide uprising led primarily by ...

The Jewish people were particularly drawn to the Enlightenment movement, and gave it their energy and talent. Unfortunately, ...

The recent terror attacks in France have generated a great deal of anxiety about the sturdiness of one of the pillars on which her republican edifice has been erected secularism The word does not figu ...

The discovery of Napoleon’s 3-cm penis invites a deeper discussion about male identity and the perception of power throughout ...

Tucked away in southern France, right along the Atlantic coast, is France’s 9th biggest city and the capital of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region. Welcome to Bordeaux! I’ll be honest, here. I love love ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social ...

France’s ragtag army stood against the professional might of Austria and Prussia. What followed at Valmy stunned Europe—and changed history.

Ahead of anniversary events marking the bicentennial of Lafayette's farewell tour of the US, a new book looks back at the war ...