Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the ...

David A. Bell teaches French history at Princeton. His “Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Two hundred twenty-six ...

Stuart takes it further. "When revolutionaries fought in the French Revolution, some of them got bound up in this idea that animals, too, were in need of liberation from oppression and from ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

The French Revolution is a landmark period in European history, but people still get a lot of it wrong. We're here to shed light on some of the most prevalent myths about Marie Antoinette, the ...

French Revolution. Divorce Papers and Sauce-Stained Sleeves Reveal the Personal Side of Napoleon’s Rise and Fall. More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction.

The French Revolution changed many things beyond political systems, from a short-lived reorganization of the calendar to the invention of the metric system. The Paris Opera, that most royal of ...