David A. Bell teaches French history at Princeton. His “Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Two hundred twenty-six ...

The French Revolution is a landmark period in European history, but people still get a lot of it wrong. We're here to shed light on some of the most prevalent myths about Marie Antoinette, the ...

The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, with an astonishing, world-changing spectacle, which held all the eyes of Europe spellbound ...

This French film, directed by Pierre Schoeller, shows three of the most important scenes of the Revolution: the Storming of ...

The ninth of November, 1799—the 18th of Brumaire in the calendar of the French Revolution—is often remembered as the day the Revolution ended. Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Italy and ...

A version was made for French television in 1984, and the scene of the execution of the martyrs is widely featured on social media. The story is not widely known outside of France, but those who ...

The French Revolution reshaped execution, leading to the invention of the guillotine. Show more During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in ...

A specter is haunting the Supreme Court. The unruly ghost of the French Revolution—the bane of reactionaries for the last two centuries—continues to trouble the judges who dominate the most ...

The French Revolution Share: Copy Link ... but the country remained at war with Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain following Louis XVI's execution.