Today is Bastille Day, the national holiday of France, a country I love. Bastille Day is always difficult, because I want to celebrate France, but not the French Revolution. Why not the French ...

On Jan. 21, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine. In 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners resigned ...

In fact, most people executed during the French Revolution – and particularly in its perceived bloodiest era, the nine-month “Reign of Terror” between autumn 1793 and summer 1794 – were ...

As revolution raged in the 1790s, French scientists replaced a chaotic system of weights and measures with an unified way to calibrate and calculate. Citizens use France’s new metric measures in ...

1793: Napoleon’s Breakthrough at Toulon. Posted: June 12, 2025 | Last updated: June 15, 2025. In the chaos of the French Revolution, a young artillery officer took command and turned the tide at ...

The French Revolution and British Popular Politics by Mark Philp (Cambridge University Press, 1991) Places to visit Visit Tom Paine's house in Sandwich , where he wrote his first pamphlet ...

The French republican calendar they promulgated in 1793 is an oddity by our standards. It kept the Gregorian calendar’s 12-month scheme but created 10-day weeks and three-week months.