The long train of abuses and usurpations known as the French Revolution began in earnest 230 years ago Sunday with the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris. Across the English Channel a red ...

'The men are holding back, the men are cowards . . . we will take over' On 5 October 1789 thousands of Parisian women tramped twelve miles to Versailles to bring the king back to the capital. This ...

The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, by a Paris mob has become the enduring symbol of the French Revolution. The pressure for widescale reform within France had been growing for more than… ...

Johannesburg - In what could be termed theatre imitating life, 1789, a theatre production based on the French Revolution of the same year, will be making its SA debut from July 14-23 at Sibikwa ...

Welter Recherche Technologie Industrie is the brainchild of Gerard Welter, a French designer who worked for Peugeot between 1998 and 2007. Some of his creations include the 304, the 604, 305, 405 ...

In case anyone's failed to notice, this year marks the 200th anniversary of the 'French Revolution'. This is usually seen as a series of political and social events beginning with the storming of the ...

As an element in the culte de la patrie, July 14 is now so firmly established that it might well survive changes which, in pure logic, are quite antithetical to what the men of 1789 were striving for.

The French parliament in 1877. Jules-Arsène Garnier/Wikimedia. From the 19th century onward, sub-categories quickly developed, aimed at placing every politician on a kind of spectrum from left to ...