A historian’s account of modern revolutions finds that while some dictators have been opposed by popular movements, others ...

Musée National du Château de Fontainebleau, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte arguably did more for the Revolution and the Enlightenment than Robespierre ...

As these Enlightenment ideals spread throughout the colonies, so did unrest, driven by a series of events and British actions. The French and ... leading up to the Revolution occurred, commonly ...

and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. By placing so much stress on the failures and falterings of the Enlightenment, the author seems to be viewing it through the lens of current ...

Inspired by Enlightenment principles and emboldened ... and the event is now remembered as one of the pivotal events of the French Revolution. Over the 10 years of upheaval that followed, France ...

In the 18th century, as democratic revolutions undergirded by Enlightenment ... see the means as justified. The French grappled with this issue in the wake of revolution in 1789 as they worked ...

In The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire ... but also grounds her arguments at the beginning of the French Revolution in her last chapter. In doing so, she examines the ...

The French Revolution was a fierce period that reshaped ... Revolutions were greatly influenced by ideas that came from the Enlightenment period. There were several key ideas of the Enlightenment ...