On 9 1905, France abolished Catholicism as the state religion after MPs voted to separate church and state, a move that ...

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...

Ukrainian historians have discovered documents from the 17th-18th centuries in Ottoman archives in which Ukrainians are ...

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 ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

In case anyone's failed to notice, this year marks the 200th anniversary of the 'French Revolution'. This is usually seen as a series of political and social events beginning with the storming of the ...

The long train of abuses and usurpations known as the French Revolution began in earnest 230 years ago Sunday with the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris. Across the English Channel a red-haired ...

1. The quality that makes Jules Michelet’s history so powerful is what the French call souffle—literally, breath; figuratively, inspiration, creativity, energy. Michelet understood the French ...