On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...

leading to the French Revolution, beginning in Paris on May 5th, 1789, and lasting for over a decade and ending on November 9 ...

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 ...

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

In the beginning was the mob ... Yet the nature and role of the crowd in the French Revolution have always been contested. For British conservatives of the late eighteenth century, Burke most ...

Voting to abolish the monarchy once and for all, the Convention declared the institution of a new world and a new beginning for ... tremulous episode of the French Revolution.

Michelet understood the French Revolution as a collective triumph; he describes it as the destruction of a world built up by centuries of oppression, and the creation of a new order, for the ...