Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism.

It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

The unconventional artistic rebellion of surrealism may seem a long way removed from the sober, disciplined work of Marxist ...

The French Revolution would have an enormous impact ... equality and brotherhood to you and me. OK, it didn’t end all that well but the principle’s a good one. MAX: Meanwhile in Belfast ...