The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were also common, according to a historian at the University of Oslo.

The French Revolution opposed the Church, and those crowds were not faithful Catholics – they were people who supported closing chapels and ending the teachings of the Church.

On June 17, 1789, after Louis denied its petition for a one man-one vote policy, the Third Estate seceded and formed the National Assembly. On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it.

A new period drama on Apple TV+ is serving up the story of the first celebrity chef, Antonin Carême.. Carême takes place during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution. The ...

Her father, Patrice Higonnet, is a French historian who told his young daughter tales of the French Revolution as bedtime stories. Higonnet loved learning about her heritage, but she didn’t view ...