The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

who worked with the American Thomas Jefferson to draft The Declaration of the Rights of Man. While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty, equality, fraternity”, in practice this did ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...

Travel back in time to late 18th century France and follow the development of the French Revolution. What were the underlying causes for the revolution? What was the Reign of Terror? Who was ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints. It was a rare decision, in that no one in the Church disagreed with it. In order to understand why the ...

Carla Cook, Susannah French Putney Chapter SecretaryDaughters of the American Revolution The regular meeting of the Susannah ...