Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

Movies about the French Revolution are diverse, including costume dramas, horror films, comedies, and more, all set during ...

and the event is now remembered as one of the pivotal events of the French Revolution. Over the 10 years of upheaval that followed, France would execute its king and queen—and countless others ...

The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society.

But as we approach what’s known in English as Bastille Day and in French as Quatorze Juillet – a date commemorating events of ... were martyrs and the main victims of revolution executioners.

The religious sisters were convicted of hostility to the French Revolution, sympathies to the ... and were still punished by the State. One of the main themes of Synodality has been emphasizing ...