What is known about the First Republic, the political regime founded during the Revolution that governed France from 1792 to ...

Hailed as the “foremother of feminism”, Mary Wollstonecraft shook up 18th-century Britain with her barnstorming treatises on ...

In the aftermath of World War II, a cinematic movement emerged that would characterize and embody the zeitgeist of an entire generation of youth, pushing boundaries for years to come: The French ...

With radical groups rounding up the citizenry and imprisoning, executing and persecuting at will, entropy was the order of ...

2.1. In order to put an end to the excess of the Reign of Terror, the National Convention voted to execute Robespierre and several other leading members of the Terror ...

The French grappled with this issue in the wake of revolution in 1789 as they worked on a new constitution, based on principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Steeped in the language of ...

Don’t worry: tonight, there will be no storming of the Bastille, no guillotine. Since tonight is the start of the most beautiful of all revolutions: the Paralympic revolution," Estanguet said to ...

But in late 18th-century France, a macabre tradition very much ... to public squares to prepare to witness executions, sometimes by guillotine. During the U.S. Civil War, there was an actual ...

1789 is one of the most significant dates in history – famous for the revolution in France with its cries of ‘Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!’ that led to the removal of the French upper classes. The ...

Additionally, France had spent heavily on unsuccessful wars and support for the American Revolution. Revenue was insufficient (by 1788 ... declared their opponents enemies of the people and sentenced ...