France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

This was the Revolution of 1789. On this 3-hour French Revolution walking tour in Paris, we will discover the influences that contributed to this rebellion, forever transforming the country. Led by a ...

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 ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed ... earning the nickname émigrés. The French Revolution had been unleashed.

French Consul General in Bengaluru agrees to host Bastille Day celebration, discusses cultural events and educational ...

It started as a protest over the price of bread, but the women's march on Versailles ended up shaking the foundations of the French monarchy.

Manif is short for manifestation, which means 'protest'. France, known worldwide for its bloody 1789 revolution, has a ...

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

It is the French Revolution of 1789 that fundamentally separated the concept of revolution from its cyclical etymological meaning to signify a singular and distinctive rupture with the past.

RP tries to reconcile verbal invocations of revolution, internationalism and Trotskyism with its own ties to Stalinist, social-democratic or bourgeois liberal parties and national union bureaucracies ...