Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...
The French Revolution Pamphlets collection at Brandeis University's Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department consists of 94 documents (three linear feet) published ...
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The French Revolution is a landmark period in European history, but people still get a lot of it wrong. We're here to shed light on some of the most prevalent myths about Marie Antoinette, the ...
“[Just] as the French revolution … understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution,” said Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, in a December 2001 ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When, in 1978, François Furet pronounced the French Revolution over, he did not mean it had become obsolete or ...
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- It's generally agreed that the War for American Independence (1775-1783) was one of the few revolutions to result in a government better than the one it overthrew. In this ...