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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...