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

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 ...

Last week, in the aftermath of looting and destruction in several French cities, Patrice Faure, the Paris Prefect of Police, announced a new task force. It would use every available means – notably ...

OP-ED. Historian Guillaume Mazeau argues in an op-ed that signs and slogans invoking 1789 serve as ways for rebellious youth ...

When Adrian Maxwell, a retired City of London Police detective and criminal barrister, stumbled on this timeless idyll he ...

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

We learn about different revolutions at school, but we often see them as very distant conflicts that have nothing to do with ...

The modern revolutionary isn’t driven by hunger and poverty but by bitterness and contempt.

Hundreds of thousands of people in France protested last Saturday against government policy, the rising cost of living and ...

French authorities promised a “massive” police presence for planned protests on Saturday and imposed localized curfews for a second consecutive night as the country grapples with the fallout from its ...

Nobody protests quite like the French.