Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his ... Its first victim was a common thief, Nicolas Jacques Pelletier. As revolutionaries geared up for the execution of the king at ...

In fact, France’s support for the revolutionaries in the American ... from the French commoners against the monarchy, but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start.

It takes just a glance — at a headline, a TikTok clip, or an infographic — to sense it: our country is spiraling toward ...

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 would be led by shopkeepers ... The leaders of this popular revolt had genuinely revolutionary ideas. Very quickly they abolished all the privileges of the aristocracy.

“counter-revolution” was about countering the revolutionary projects that emerged after the French Revolution. This gave counter-revolution back then a Burkean quality, which is to say ...

Travel back in time to late 18th century France and follow the development of the French Revolution. What were the underlying causes for the revolution? What was the Reign of Terror? Who was ...

During that earlier conflict, several hundred soldiers from the French island colony of Saint ... Saint-Domingue's slave revolution posed delicate problems for both England and the leadership of the ...

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 ...