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 ...

The currency was primarily supported by a political group known as the Jacobins, a party whose power waned throughout the revolution. The French Revolution began at the end of the 18th century ...

In fact, most people executed during the French Revolution – and particularly ... conspiracy rumours circulated across the country, and political infighting intensified in Paris between opposing ...

When Mary Wollstonecraft's book on recent French political events was published in 1794, John Adams already knew first-hand about revolution. He read the book for the first time in 1796 ...

The political thought and experience of ... who felt that on their way to the Revolution, French leaders simply checked their common sense at the door. Of course it was more complicated than ...

OTTAWA, Canada -- Political history is intimately tied ... the development of nationalisms and was a key lever of the French Revolution. Napoleon once declared that he feared three newspapers ...