Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the events of 5 October 1789. On this day, thousands of women from Paris marched on the Palace of Versailles, expressing their outrage about ...

He helped negotiate — with John Adams and Ben Franklin — the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which formally secured recognition of American independence from the British crown and in the eyes of the ...

Paris is split into two halves – the Right ... or the site of the infamous storming of the Bastille in 1789. Today, the Opéra Bastille, rises from the ashes of this historic locale and has ...

After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of ...

You might even learn a historical fact or two about the city’s famous legends and architectural icons. From where to stay to ...

Christmas in the City of Light is magical, with festive luxury hotels, twinkling lights, and beautiful holiday markets.

The course for the marathon and race walking at the Paris Olympics draws inspiration from the famed Women's March of 1789, when nearly 7,000 Parisian women marched through Paris Versailles to bring ...

How did the Huguenots of Paris survive, and even prosper, in the eighteenth century when the majority Catholic population was notorious for its hostility to Protestantism? Why, by the end of the Old ...

During the French Revolution (1789-99) the name changed again ... In 1871 the column was torn down during the rule of the Paris Commune, a group of French revolutionaries who seized power for ...

3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British representatives ... Thomas Jefferson succeeded Franklin as first ...