It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

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 ...

What French Revolution Hygiene Was Like Posted: February 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Today, we think of 1700s-era France as a period of unwashed and unparalleled squalor. While this is ...

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 ...

Lethière (1760–1832) was, until the Clark and the Louvre joined in this show to survey his career, an unremembered history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the ...

The trio of history lectures were completely sold out this season, covering topics including the French Revolution.

A French company has achieved a breakthrough in textile recycling, producing the first T-shirt made entirely from recycled ...

In “The Revolutionists,” Rice Arts  discusses the value of drama to make sense of, and guide our response to, turbulent ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...