On 27 June, faced with popular demonstrations and mutinies in his French Guards, Louis XVI capitulated. He commanded the members of the first and second estates to join the third in the National ...
All three of these books enjoyed the rare distinction of being translated into French, and no general history of the Revolution could be written today without making use of their findings. Now he ...
The Reign of Terror, The bloody chapter of the French Revolution, led by Robespierre and the Jacobins, was an extremely violent time in the French Revolution. All those who opposed the current ...
but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.
as the Phrygian cap was part of all the major events in French history. The French National Archives show records of Phrygian caps worn during the construction of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral in 1163, ...
A French court has found 18 people guilty in ... transporting migrants and refugees on small boats across the English Channel from France to the United Kingdom. The defendants were swept up ...