The French Revolution, which took place between 1789 and 1799, is one of the most significant events in the world.

Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the ...

Those watching the cultural news of the past week probably saw the festivities in France on July 14, Bastille Day, which is ...

Thousands of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison, in Paris on 1789. The Bastille symbolised the ...

The French Revolution had claimed its first two victims. Some 30,000 more people would die in political violence before Napoleon seized power, ending the revolution, a decade later.

The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789, is seen as a defining event in the French Revolution. But how does the ...

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

A sketch of the French Revolution by a theoretical Anarchist is likely to have whatever interest attaches to a peculiar point of view. Mr. James seems to be a theoretic Anarchist, and his book has ...

Today is Bastille Day, the French national day, commemorating the beginning of the Revolution in 1789, which led to the end of the monarchy in France and the establishment of the First Republic.

The French Revolution opposed the Church, and those crowds were not faithful Catholics – they were people who supported closing chapels and ending the teachings of the Church.