historians of the French Revolution as to its causes. Usually, they acknowledge the presence of several interlinked factors, but vary in the weight they...

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of...

The French Revolution of 1848 (French: Révolution française de 1848), also known as the February Revolution (Révolution de février), was a period of civil...

The historiography of the French Revolution stretches back over two hundred years. Contemporary and 19th-century writings on the Revolution were mainly...

The Iranian Revolution was the Shia Islamic revolution that replaced the secular monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with a theocracy led by Ayatollah...

The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (French: révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or Trois Glorieuses ("Three...

The Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres...

The following is a timeline of the French Revolution. Louis XVI in 1777 Étienne Charles de Brienne, minister of finance 1787-88 Jacques Necker, minister...

against the Kingdom of Great Britain. Leaders of the American Revolution were colonial separatist leaders who originally sought more autonomy within the British...

The French Revolution had a major impact on Europe and the New World. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in European...

interpreters of the events in France. One of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution, Reflections is a defining tract of modern conservatism...

Regime and the French Revolution. The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, the so-called "Ancien Régime", and investigates the forces...

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition...

caused by the Revolution. There are many signs of these effects of the French Revolution in various pieces of Romantic literature. By examining the influence...

The Haitian Revolution (French: révolution haïtienne or French: La guerre de l'indépendance French pronunciation: [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ a.i.sjɛn]; Haitian Creole:...

his Law on Cults of 18 Germinal, Year X. Opposition to the Roman Catholic Church was integral among the causes of the French Revolution, and this anti-clericalism...

The aim of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France during the French Revolution ranged from the appropriation by the...

and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and the succeeding Napoleonic rule. Although began in 1789 as a peaceful effort led by the Bourgeoisie to...

the midst of the French Revolution. It also published work by other members of the Amis des Noirs, such as Étienne Clavière ("De la France et des Etats-Unis"...

The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution...

The Great Fear (French: Grande Peur) was a general panic that took place between 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. Rural...

financial hardship from the economic crises. The causes of the French Revolution affected all of France, but matters came to a head first in Grenoble...

The vingtième (French pronunciation: [vɛ̃tjɛm], twentieth) was an income tax of the ancien régime in France. It was abolished during the French Revolution...

Look up French Revolution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The French Revolution was a period of social radial and political society in France from 1789...

Historians since the late 20th century have debated how women shared in the French Revolution and what impact it had on French women. Women had no political...

The May Revolution (Spanish: Revolución de Mayo) was a series of revolutionary political and social events that took place during the early nineteenth...

The Parlement of Paris (French: Parlement de Paris) was the oldest parlement in the Kingdom of France, formed in the 14th century. It was fixed in Paris...

The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of revolutions throughout...

kingly ineptitude are among the causes of the French Revolution. This is a somewhat Platonic and Hegelian view that reifies causes as ontological entities...

justify various revolutions, including the American Revolution, French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Iranian Revolution. To justify their...