Policymakers managed to avert another depression but, once they did so, their mission seemed complete and their hands were ...

The French national holiday of Bastille Day—celebrated each year on July 14, or le quatorze juillet—may spell fireworks and ...

Lamar University history professor Rebecca Boone’s class on the French Revolution is more than just a textbook case of class revolt. It’s history that comes alive, as students become part of the ...

The storming of the Bastille this week (July 14) in 1788 heralded the French Revolution, but why did the French people rebel against King Louis XVI, an inoffensive, even well-meaning member of the ...

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 ...

‘It all stands pretty fair in my head, nor do I mean to investigate much more about it, but to splash down what I know, in large masses of colours; that it may look like a smoke-and-flame ...