Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...

The French Revolution (1789-1799) lasted until the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Years of medieval oppression and financial mismanagement led the French people to want changes in politics ...

In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

Radical liberalism, the execution of King Louis XVI and the Reign of Terror were not the only factors shaping the French Revolution of 1789, according to Prof. Ian ...

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition co-organized by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as part of 1789-1989, the French Revolution: a UCLA ...

Alongside its momentous legal proclamations, the Revolution sought to reinvent daily life, going so far as to alter time itself with a new revolutionary calendar: the September 1792 declaration of the ...