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Tipping Point Of The French Revolution: The Women’s March On Versailles

The Women’s March on Versailles was one of the most dramatic moments of the French Revolution. It was a bold and desperate act driven by hunger, anger, and a burning desire for justice. The pivotal ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The French Revolution’ Review: Bastille Day and After

Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...
Time

History Shows How Not to Resolve Political Differences

The Call for the Last Victims of the Terror, 7-9 Thermidor, Year 2 (25-27 July 1794). Found in the collection of Musée de l'Histoire de France, Château de Versailles.= The assassination of Charlie ...
Time

3 Lessons from the French Revolution European Policymakers Should Keep in Mind

Place de Grève at the Storming of the Bastille, Jul. 14, 1789, from an 18th-century engraving by Letourmy of Orléans History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the ...
The New York Times

Liberté, Égalité and a New App to Explore Paris

A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light. By Paige McClanahan Photographs by Dmitry Kostyukov Paige McClanahan, the author of “The New Tourist: Waking up to the ...