In 1789 France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and ...

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 ...

Bastille Day celebrations mark a historical motif that has been imprinted on French society since, writes LARA MARLOWE in Paris… Bastille Day celebrations mark a historical motif that has been ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. During the 1920s, as Europe watched economic chaos unfolding in the Weimar Republic, the French historian ...

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 ...

While the French Revolution of 1789 reconfigured the political contours of Europe, Britain seemed impervious to revolutionary change. But how exceptional was Britain? Eric Evans investigates. No ...