The French Revolution (1789-1799) was one of the most transformative events in world history, altering the course of Europe and influencing political ideologies globally. Its origins can be traced to ...

The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French Revolution and the political terror it ...

France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday, the holiday marking the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in ...

The Elysee Palace, the French president’s official residence, said that non-striking workers would set up the necessary accouterments for the trip instead. Months in the making, Charles’s glamorous ...

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 ...

For many people, however, mention of this period of French history leads to the vision of a bloodthirsty Revolution indiscriminately sending to their death thousands of nobles.

In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.

Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 147 "Description of the picture: from the Buffalo catalogue. 'the French Revolution of 1848' is painted on a canvas ten feet high by twenty feet long.