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 ...

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 king’s intentions.

For centuries, historians have debated whether the “Great Fear” panic in the early days of the French Revolution was driven by the mass hysteria of ignorant peasants or a rational response to the ...