In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.

The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

Review of The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton (Harvard University Press, 2025). There are few events that have set the terms of Western politics ...

“From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world’s history, and you can all say you were present at its birth!” By September 1792, the Prussians, under the ...

As French revolutionary forces declared war against European powers beginning in 1792, President Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793. At the time, Thomas Jefferson served as ...

The French Revolution : from its origins to 1793 ... "Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively ...

[ Books in brief: The Princess of 72nd Street; The World Administered by Irishmen; The Lamb Opens in new window ] While Sofi gets caught up with the political fervour brewing among her fellow ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An ...