The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution ... as well as a representative government and equality before the law.

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... She wanted women to be allowed to vote and be elected to government. She opposed the execution of King Louis XVI and wanted the people ...

What everyone likes to remember about the French Revolution is that it proclaimed the rights of man, including equality for all under the law. By comparison, its slightly older and wiser sister ...

The French Revolution was a violent and bloody period of France’s history but imagine this great change with giant mechs ...

Giommoni, Tommaso, Gabriel Loumeau, and Marco Tabellini. "Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-047, April 2025. (Featured at VoxEU.) ...

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

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...