Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to ...

For the past 162 years, France has been trying to digest the French Revolution which other nations have assimilated with less difficulty. If the decay of pre-Revolutionary France had been as deep as ...

FRANCE has achieved her political revolution in an orderly manner: she has regained stability and established new political institutions to safeguard it. But without an economic renewal the political ...

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Annales historiques de la Révolution française, No. 272 (Avril-Juin 1988), pp. 127-150 (24 pages) En contribution aux débats actuels, l'auteur propose de distinguer trois catégories de référence : ...

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy, “Aeneas and Companions in Latium” (circa 1790-1793) black ink and wash with white gouache highlights on brown paper (21.4 x 16.3 cm) PARIS — Over the course of history, ...

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It’s no secret that food is political. Everyday commodities, including food, have the power to uproot, shatter and recreate societies. A particularly dramatic example of food upending the status quo ...

On the surface at least, the Gaullist régime in France now looks substantially stronger than before the May crisis. The June elections gave General de Gaulle and his then Prime Minister, Georges ...