Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ...

Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution will explore an alternate-history timeline take on revolutionary France, all based on one ...

For the past 162 years, France has been trying to digest the French Revolution which other nations have assimilated with less difficulty. If the decay of pre-Revolutionary France had been as deep ...

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

A cool look, however, at the forces and mechanisms of revolutionary violence in France today indicates that the danger should not be overdramatized. Perhaps the most redoubtable threat to social ...

THE REVOLUTIONARY TEMPER: Paris, 1748-1789, by Robert Darnton This year, for the better part of winter, spring and summer, people in France engaged in a proud national tradition: mass demonstration.