Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...
That fear culminated on July 14 in a march to the Hôtel des Invalides to loot firearms and cannons, and a resulting (and far more famous) trip to the Bastille for proper ammunition. That hunt for ...
Powerful kings ruled France for centuries and their reigns impacted European politics, culture and identity. The monarchs of the medieval dynasties and their successors, the absolute monarchs of ...
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