But the French Revolution and Napoleonic era decidedly ... There had been some resistance throughout Europe to such policies, whether from elites wedded to ideas of personal responsibility or ...

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 death of French general Jean-Baptiste Gouvion. French Revolution Digital Archive Celebrations for the Fête de la Fédération, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. French ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

But perhaps there is no greater example of the explosive intersection of climate disruption and political upheaval than the period surrounding the French Revolution of 1789. Starting in the mid ...

In fact, today's restaurant business is actually a byproduct of the class warfare that arose during the French Revolution ... in travelogues throughout Europe. As word of their deliciousness ...

Mathematician and author, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was an aristocrat who nevertheless embraced the early stage of the French ... of Europe.) The early stages of the revolution famously ...

Both during the revolution and its imperial aftermath, the Vatican resisted the republican order Paris was trying to impose across Europe. The French responded by marching on Rome twice - in 1798 and ...