This scene during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Friday, July 26, 2024, was meant to represent the Greek gods during a banquet, according to organizers. (Religious News ...

It was the summer of 1789, and a strange fever was sweeping across France. It wasn’t a plague, or at least not a plague of the body. To some, it a plague of the mind. Parisians had stormed the ...

Whenever a revolutionary movement begins calling for the existing social order to be overthrown, it doesn’t take long for a reference to July 14, 1789, to surface – that’s when an angry mob dismantled ...

1. The quality that makes Jules Michelet’s history so powerful is what the French call souffle—literally, breath; figuratively, inspiration, creativity, energy. Michelet understood the French ...

Study finds that politics, public expectations fuel hyperinflation. More than 200 years later, historians are still gleaning some unexpected insights from the French Revolution -- not about tyranny or ...

As the absolute symbol of the kings of France, the Palace of Versailles seemed doomed to disappear during the French ...

The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to download the Adobe Flash player. The French ...

Saturday was Bastille Day, the French holiday commemorating a pivotal moment of the French Revolution: The storming of the Bastille prison. But in addition to remembering the revolutionaries with a ...