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

Two hundred years ago today, a mob of Parisian commoners stormed the Bastille, a 14th-century fortress being used as a jail, in hopes of seizing arms and ammunition. Their daring gesture turned out to ...

Robert Conquest, the great tabulator and eulogist of Communism’s victims, wrote that “over the past century the human race has survived experiences that, to put it mildly, should have been instructive ...

Goethe, who witnessed the French Revolution, said it was an event so important he would have to spend the rest of his life working out what it meant. The French themselves still do not agree on what ...

Stamps have been a means of expressing the goodwill that exists between the United States and France. The countries have issued stamps honoring each other, and both have participated in two joint ...

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Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...