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

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

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In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.

In fact, most people executed during the French Revolution – and particularly in its perceived bloodiest era, the nine-month “Reign of Terror” between autumn 1793 and summer 1794 – were ...

The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones: French Revolution and its impact on women . A highly visual, immersive novel in which the lives of three women are no longer mapped out from birth.

Written in 1957 by a fascinating composer, Francis Poulenc, it tells the true story of the martyrdom of an order of Carmelite nuns at the dawn of the French Revolution.

Her father, Patrice Higonnet, is a French historian who told his young daughter tales of the French Revolution as bedtime stories. Higonnet loved learning about her heritage, but she didn’t view ...