If you had to pick one quote to sum up the extravagance of the French monarchy, "Let them eat cake," would probably be it. It ...

Until this book by Keith Michael Baker appeared in late 2025, there had been only two English-language biographies of ...

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ...

Events from this week in Christian history include the birth of Richard Harvey Cain, Pope Pius VI denouncing the French ...

In Revolution-era Paris, three radically chic media stars swept away centuries of strictures about what women should wear and how they should live. A new book unveils the other French Revolution.

The Church’s job is to “make saints,” not so much to canonize them as to prepare every human person to “know, love, and serve God in this life and be happy with him in the next.” Obviously, the number ...

Place de Grève at the Storming of the Bastille, Jul. 14, 1789, from an 18th-century engraving by Letourmy of Orléans History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the ...

Study finds that politics, public expectations fuel hyperinflation. More than 200 years later, historians are still gleaning some unexpected insights from the French Revolution -- not about tyranny or ...