France 1848 In June 1848 civil war broke out in Paris. Although the fighting only lasted for four days, it was one of the bloodiest conflicts in France in the nineteenth century, with thousands killed and injured. The fighting occurred between the...
The eighteenth century belonged to the period known as the Enlightenment. Thinkers of the time, such as Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in England and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in France, were influenced by the experimental science of Sir Isaac...
The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the...
The diminutive, dapper Frenchman cut a lonely figure at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in London last week. "My name is Herve Huas," he said. "I'm a new board member of Eurotunnel." Huas, a former banker with JP Morgan, had good reason...
Marcel Duchamp's inspired work helped lead to American Modernism At this moment at the beginning of the 21st century, it appears that the difference between the U.S. and France has been reduced to the question of war or peace. Ever since Lafayette...
Troops from all 27 European Union nations marched in France's Bastille Day parade for the first time Saturday, part of a revamped celebration enacted by new President Nicolas Sarkozy."It's a party. It's Europe's party," Sarkozy said of the holiday, his first as president. "It was...
Visitors to Versailles now have access to attractions related to Marie-Antoinette that are newly restored or have not previously been open to the public. Versailles is selling separate tickets to the Marie-Antoinette estate for $11.30 in addition to the general...
“[The French Revolutionaries] wanted freedom of thought, expression, religion, association, and of enterprise of all kinds. . . . They recognized their own program in the great Declaration of Rights of 1789. New rights, for more people, have been...
Louis the XVI and the French Revolution. Did the weaknesses of King Louis XVI truly advance the French revolution or was he the victim in a tragic whirlwind of events that couldn't be stopped?
This is a discussion of the changing French social classes from the beginning of the French Revolution through the Terror. Though the groups unanimously desired the destruction of Feudalism, they agreed on little else.
