The French Revolution (1789-1799) was one of the most transformative events in world history, altering the course of Europe and influencing political ideologies globally. Its origins can be traced to ...

Compare the list of leaders in the French Revolution with that of the leaders of the Revolution in England — Eliot, Pym, Hampden, Cromwell, Ireton — in character, capacity, loftiness of aim.

The ninth of November, 1799—the 18th of Brumaire in the calendar of the French Revolution—is often remembered as the day the Revolution ended. Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Italy and ...

Two hundred twenty-six years after the fall of the Bastille, the French Revolution stirs passions mostly among historians like myself. But many of the myths surrounding the revolution have proved ...

Apparently, despite his love of the musical, Trump doesn’t know if he’s the hero or villain of this story. He's the villain.

The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today’s Jacobins.

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution.

Over the past few years, French Revolution-inspired imagery has crept into ads for products as diverse as breakfast cereal, perfume, airlines, and, now, energy drinks.

The French Revolution conjures up memories of Marie Antoinette and the guillotine and angry peasant uprisings, but middle-class vegetarians may have also played an important role in the politics ...

It has become nearly a truism in English and other languages as well, particularly French, that revolutions devour their children. This is so often repeated and apparently shown to be true, ...

What caused the Reign of Terror? At the end of the French Revolution, a revolutionary government called the National Convention came into power and formed the first French Republic.