One of France’s leading socialists, Jean Jaurès was assassinated just days before the outbreak of World War I. An impassioned ...

Rewarding strong-stomached readers with a riveting tale, Antoine de Baecque’s Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution (Routledge) limns the era at a visceral level. True, bodies are ...

The French Revolution (1789-1799) lasted until the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Years of medieval oppression and financial mismanagement led the French people to want changes in politics ...

THE call for a third edition of Mr. Beesly’s apologetic Life of Danton 1 seems to show that there is Danton in the political air. In fact, some of the features of the French Revolution, notably the ...

"Description of the picture: from the Buffalo catalogue. 'the French Revolution of 1848' is painted on a canvas ten feet high by twenty feet long. It contains two hundred and fifty figures - many of ...

The Church’s job is to “make saints,” not so much to canonize them as to prepare every human person to “know, love, and serve God in this life and be happy with him in the next.” Obviously, the number ...