The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Some movies aim for historical accuracy and shed light on the horrors faced by ordinary people during the French Revolution.

Though the farthest flung draw for the New York summer people, the Clark’s summer ... painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the Bonaparte era from the wee pharaoh ...

The People in Arms, first published in 2002, is concerned with the mass mobilization of society for war. It takes as its starting point the French levée en masse of 1793, which replaced former ...

and the establishment of the French Republic, which placed the power in the hands of the people. In Britain in 1688, the so-called Glorious Revolution took place when the Catholic King James II ...

MAX: I know what you’re saying, the French Revolution didn’t happen in Belfast. MAX: Ah, but in a funny way it did! MAX: It’s 1789 and the people of France are overthrowing the monarchy and ...