Movies about the French Revolution are diverse, including costume dramas, horror films, comedies, and more, all set during this turbulent time period. Some movies aim for historical accuracy and ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Before the Pacers and Spurs tip off in Paris, here's how French players have become such an important part of the NBA's culture — and an even bigger part of its future.

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A group of performers will take to the stage in Hull for a musical celebrating the life of feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft.

Lethière (1760–1832) was, until the Clark and the Louvre joined in this show to survey his career, an unremembered history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the ...

but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

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 ...

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...