France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

The unruly ghost of the French Revolution—the bane of reactionaries ... Justice Brown—only reversing the valence to stress the evil of challenging aristocratic rule.3 More From Jeet Heer ...

In 1792, the Bourbon monarchy was abolished ... Hardman claims it was one of “the darkest moments of the French Revolution [and] the cruelest in Marie-Antoinette’s life." ...

France had abolished its monarchy only to find itself under the rule of an emperor. Years later Thomas Jefferson would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided ...

Voting to abolish the monarchy once and for all ... tremulous episode of the French Revolution. With Prussia closing in, bodies littering the streets, and the revolutionary leaders hungry for ...

Monarchy is a "strange" institution but one ... whose 70-year reign encompassed 15 prime ministers. In contrast the French revolution in 1789 led to the execution by guillotine of Louis XVI ...

When angry commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, they struck a blow against one of the monarchy’s most ... the defining moments of the French Revolution.

Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints. It was a rare decision, in that no one in the Church disagreed with it. In order to understand why the ...