From Michael Williams, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, UK France never more united than in summer of 1789 on x (opens in a new window) France never more united than in summer of 1789 on facebook ...

Voices Comment Anti-Semitism in France: A prejudice that hardened in 1789 and which has come in waves ever since Just look at how one periodical described the country’s first Jewish prime minister ...

Protest movements in France invariably carry echoes of class warfare and the 1789 revolution. The yellow-jacketed gilets jaunes, who managed to mobilise 290,000 people across France on Saturday ...

Outside the three provinces, Brittany, Alsace and Dauphiné, which are cited by Taine, traces are to be found of similar movements nearly all over the eastern part of France.” ...

Nothing could be more erroneous than to imagine or describe France as a nation of heroes on the eve of 1789, and Quinet was perfectly right in destroying this legend, which some historians had tried ...