France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Every summer, we at Jacobin sit down to ask ourselves, what would you like to read on a warm sandy beach? Our answers to this ...

The French education bureau is facing backlash for distributing hundreds of Grade 12 provincial exams that contain an infamous caricature of the founder of Islam.

Clockwise from lower L: William Anthony Sebastian Rose II, Penelope Walker, Glenn Obrero, Demetra Dee, and Diego Vasquez Gomez in A Tale of Two Cities at Shattered Globe Theatre Credit: Michael ...

In her hands, the revolution is a tumultuous time in which the lives of three women – white, red, blue – are no longer mapped out from birth, but have the potential, even briefly, of a fresh ...

Religion and the French Revolution Established in the 16th century by two saints, Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, the Order of Discalced Carmelites is a Catholic religious order.

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.

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Scenes from the French Revolution. | The Print Collector/Getty Images The economic crisis illuminated some of France’s long-standing issues, perhaps most notably the insidious effects of ...

The French revolutionaries, on the other hand, were trying to destroy French society as they knew it and start over with something else. Bloodshed was in the revolution’s DNA.

Anne Higonnet’s newest book elevates the role of Juliette Récamier, Térézia Tallien and Joséphine Bonaparte in freeing women from confining styles.

Since then, “color revolution” has become a byword for pro-Western, protest-driven regime change. The Western media has, by and large, uncritically echoed the protesters’ narrative.