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 ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all ... Toussaint L'Ouverture, the leader of the Saint Domingue rebellion, abandoned his Spanish allies, joined the forces of the French Republic ...

Speaking at a panel on Monday morning, Nabil Ayouch, a French film director, gave an impassioned speech, warmly received by ...

The leaders of this popular revolt had genuinely ... These were the ideals of the early French Revolution: liberté, égalité, fraternité. Louis XVI faced a clear choice. Could he accept ...

Ideas like democracy - which means that we are able to choose our own leaders. Freedoms such ... the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would ...