They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

Review of The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton (Harvard University Press, 2025) There are few events that have set the terms of Western politics more ...

Historically, radical republicans and socialists first adopted a red flag in the 1848 French revolution - which reinvigorated the ideals of the first uprising, in 1789 - to represent "the blood of ...

Christopher Clark is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and a fellow of St Catharine’s College. His books include Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, a biography of Kaiser ...

Victor Wembanyama (32), of France celebrates after scoring a basket against United States during a men's gold medal basketball game at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10 ...

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the continent. Hungry workers and peasants joined forces with liberals and ...

In 1848 in Germany, it was enough for mass demonstrations to break out in German cities as news spread of the February 1848 revolution in Paris for many of these regimes to crumble. The petty rulers ...

Shortly before the 1848 revolution, Michelet also wrote a hymn of hate, The People. In it he described French society as a series of mutually ferocious classes.

1848, a year of revolution! From French radicals and Irish nationalists to the various democrats and liberals throughout the rest of Europe, thousands across the continent took to open demonstrations ...

But that is not the whole story. Photo: MTI Cockade is a French accessory originating from the home of successful revolutions. It became a popular accessory during the first days of the 1789 ...