The Reign of Terror, the guillotine, the Bastille, the Third Estate: The history of the French Revolution comes to life on ...

Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...

Good morning. What does Thomas Carlyle’s account of the French Revolution teach us today? Among other things, that “Rousseau is the leading spirit of the cultural Left, in our time as in his,” John D.

Rewarding strong-stomached readers with a riveting tale, Antoine de Baecque’s Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution (Routledge) limns the era at a visceral level. True, bodies are ...

It has become nearly a truism in English and other languages as well, particularly French, that revolutions devour their children. This is so often repeated and apparently shown to be true, in the ...

It’s no secret that food is political. Everyday commodities, including food, have the power to uproot, shatter and recreate societies. A particularly dramatic example of food upending the status quo ...