During the French Revolution, differences among revolutionary groups prevented the people from universally accepting a constitution and new government. John Adams knew very well that it took ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... She opposed the execution of King Louis XVI and wanted the people of France to choose their own form government, without violence.

Fewer people (4 million to France's 24 million ... who felt that on their way to the Revolution, French leaders simply checked their common sense at the door. Of course it was more complicated ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

Though the farthest flung draw for the New York summer people, the Clark’s summer ... painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the Bonaparte era from the wee pharaoh ...

Inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the oppressed people of the French part of the island of Hispaniola began to fight for their freedom. The struggle went on for years and became a ...

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... it felt like the reign of hysteria and paranoia. All around Paris, people were waiting for the knock on the door and the streets of the ...