While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the events of 5 October 1789. On this day, thousands of women from Paris marched ...

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 ...

Students could plan and create a comic book narration of the events of the French Revolution. Students could be asked to note the causes of the French Revolution and the aims of its proponents.

Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints. It was a rare decision, in that no one in the Church disagreed with it. In order to understand why the ...

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 ...

It is thought that some of the diamonds may have ties to the famous "Affair of the Necklace," a scandal that played a role in ...