The French Revolution was a bloody fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. But it was also a battle over money.

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 ...

More than 200 years later, historians are still gleaning some unexpected insights from the French Revolution—not about tyranny or liberty—but rather, inflation. "Revolutionary France experienced the ...

The French are famous for their protests, but why is this so ingrained in French culture? Many historians trace French protest culture all the way back to the French Revolution in the 18th century. In ...

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 ...

A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light. By Paige McClanahan Photographs by Dmitry Kostyukov Paige McClanahan, the author of “The New Tourist: Waking up to the ...

Publisher Curve Games and developer Dream Reality Interactive have announced Lazare’s Sacrifice, a narrative deckbuilder retelling of the French Revolution. It will launch for PC via Steam ...

This is an audio transcript of The Story of Money podcast episode: ‘The French Revolution’s disastrous money experiment — Part 2’ Robin Wigglesworth Today on The Story of Money, how the French ...

In Revolutionary France, the guillotine was a privilege reserved for the nobility, though the nobles themselves would surely ...