It is more than 50 years since Zhou Enlai said that it was too early to say how the French Revolution had turned out. However, in this well-researched, detailed, though sometimes dense book, simply ...

The display is timed for the anniversary of France’s abolition of the death penalty, and its honoring of the lawyer who campaigned to end it. By Alexis Steinman Reporting from Marseille, France During ...

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 ...

The ninth of November, 1799—the 18th of Brumaire in the calendar of the French Revolution—is often remembered as the day the Revolution ended. Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Italy and scourge of ...

For centuries, historians have debated whether the “Great Fear” panic in the early days of the French Revolution was driven by the mass hysteria of ignorant peasants or a rational response to the ...

They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old stage. Constructed in the early first century, when Christ was a child, the ...

A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light. By Paige McClanahan Photographs by Dmitry Kostyukov Paige McClanahan, the author of “The New Tourist: Waking up to the ...