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

Now, mention of the French Revolution usually conjures up images of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette recommending that hungry subjects eat cake before being led off the guillotine. But neither ...

Saturday was Bastille Day, the French holiday commemorating a pivotal moment of the French Revolution: The storming of the Bastille prison. But in addition to remembering the revolutionaries with ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being ... of the regime in 1793–94 was the result of various factors. France fought at its borders ...

Instead, revolutions are periods in which social actors with different agendas (peasants ... The most timeless and emancipatory lesson of the French Revolution is that people make history.

And we don’t just mean that it doesn’t cover the whole revolution—it’s literally set during a different ... Images As legend would have it, Marie Antoinette was informed that French ...

Mathematician and author, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was an aristocrat who nevertheless embraced the early stage of the French Revolution ... agreed that the various units of length ...