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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What happened to the king during the French Revolution is worthy of a separate article, but what matters here is the extent to which the monarchy’s prestige declined so steeply in the decades ...

The French Revolution ... and the poor turned against the monarchy. Intellectuals wanted societal reforms to bring greater equality and equity. The trigger to revolution? The controller general ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Explanation: While France saw some evolution in its political system over time, before the French Revolution, the dominant system was one of absolute monarchy. This meant that the king held ...