Sir, I hesitate to correct a French presidential candidate about the history of his own country (“Europe holds its destiny in its own hands”. Emmanuel Macron, January 25) but the moment when ...

Nothing could be more erroneous than to imagine or describe France as a nation of heroes on the eve of 1789, ... Dumbness, silence, prevailed in the provinces and in the towns. The central power had ...

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.

A review of France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime, by Jon Elster ...

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 ...