May 15 is the anniversary of the 1891 encyclical the new Holy Father referenced. Latin for “Of New Things,” Rerum Novarum is about the rights and conditions of workers that addressed the new social ...

The Resistance dreamed of establishing a new democratic regime in France. Partisan tensions disrupted the project's ...

The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society.

France’s iconic capital city is filled with fantastic monuments. Many monuments in Paris are known all over the world like ...

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 ...

Inspired by the American and French revolutions, the United Irishmen wanted a secular republic that separated church from state. They professed the Enlightenment principles of equality, liberty and ...

At the time, the spire was not the only thing in great disrepair. During the first French Revolution, rioters looted and vandalized the cathedral after Catholic worship was banned in Paris.

An adventurer enlists his disapproving sister (Natalie Portman) in this Guy Ritchie movie with a hint of Indiana Jones. By Glenn Kenny A newly engaged Jew and gentile plan to introduce their ...

For a few months in the spring of 1848, it looked as though there might be something ... Many of them recalled without pleasure the great revolution of 1789. These men could not distinguish between ...

They are: The liberal - French - revolution of 1789 We usually speak of the liberal revolution as the French Revolution, since it began in Paris and consigned the then ancien régime to the past.

This sounds familiar: ‘There is no doubt that he was a good man and a loving father and husband, nor that he had the intellectual capacity to cope with affairs of state. He was, however, a vacillator, ...