Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...
For centuries, historians have debated whether the “Great Fear” panic in the early days of the French Revolution was driven by the mass hysteria of ignorant peasants or a rational response to the ...
The display is timed for the anniversary of France’s abolition of the death penalty, and its honoring of the lawyer who campaigned to end it. By Alexis Steinman Reporting from Marseille, France During ...