On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French ... in fact, peasants even asked the lords for protection. Plaque erected in Igé in ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Statues of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in Saint-Denis Cathedral. Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat ...

In barely a century, French peasants have seen their world ... of the 20th century to the heavy toll paid by peasants during the Great War, from the beginnings of mechanization in the inter ...

SUMMER OF FIRE AND BLOOD: The German Peasants’ War, by Lyndal Roper The German Peasants’ War was the greatest social explosion in Europe before the French ... from the great princes and ...