It started as a protest over the price of bread, but the women's march on Versailles ended up shaking the foundations of the ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and ...

Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism.

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

The French Revolution would have an enormous impact ... equality and brotherhood to you and me. OK, it didn’t end all that well but the principle’s a good one. MAX: Meanwhile in Belfast ...