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This was the Revolution of 1789. On this 3-hour French Revolution walking tour in Paris, we will discover the influences that contributed to this rebellion, forever transforming the country. Led by a ...
Few kings of France faced a more daunting prospect than Henri Bourbon in 1589. France was decades into the Wars of Religion, ...
After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775 ...
The recent terror attacks in France have generated a great deal of anxiety about the sturdiness of one of the pillars on which her republican edifice has been erected secularism The word does not figu ...
Teacher Appreciation Week is the perfect time to consider the role of educators in American society, from the Revolution ...
Francisco Goya, María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna, Oil on Canvas, 1785 A serious illness left Goya deaf and withdrawn ...
as evidenced by a 2021 video showcasing its fantasy universe – at that point devoid of French references. Farewell to the misty London of the early industrial revolution, and welcome to a ...
By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris A teenage student at a French high school in the western city of Nantes stabbed four other students during a lunch break on Thursday, killing one of them and ...
Several bars and restaurants on a two-block stretch of Bienville Street in the French Quarter that has become a popular spot for large street gatherings — and the site of two high-profile ...
Meanwhile, tensions are rising between the main political factions of the Revolution, the Girondins and the Montagnard, led by the icy Maximilien Robespierre. The streets of Paris teem with armed ...
François Bayrou told reporters it was unbearable for him as a father that the abuse took place and was not known about French Prime Minister François Bayrou says his eldest daughter's revelation ...