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 ...

When the French revolutionaries specified in the constitution of 1791 that a day of national celebration was to be held each ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the events of 5 October 1789. On this day, thousands of women from Paris marched ...

commemorates the storming of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution. Celebrated on July 14th each year, cities around the world join in the festivities. But none outside France ...

The Bastille had just seven prisoners inside ... This was much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers, journalists and lawyers. For the first time the citizens ...

Armed with axes, hay thieves, knives and rifles, they storm the Bastille fortress. Join us for the crazy day in the streets of Paris, which has become a symbol of the French Republic.

The annual Bastille Day parade - marking the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, an event that helped spark the French Revolution - has been taking place in Paris. Here are some of the most ...

Crowds have a bad reputation. Watching the crowds at Bastille, French thinker Gustave Le Bon cast their behaviour as madness, ...

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the ... the rise of equality and a new world order. The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary ...

Liberty. Equality. Fraternity. That’s the meaning of Bastille Day, according to Daout Celestin, one of the organizers of the annual Bastille Day Celebration in Piermont. The village of Piermont ...

One of the most celebrated dates on the French calendar is the14th of July — the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which signalled the beginning of the French Revolution.