In the grisly parlance used to describe being guillotined during the French Revolution, France’s most famous queen, Marie Antoinette, would “shake the hot hand” (jouer la main chaude) this week (Oct.

Revolutions have consistently served as milestones in world history, bringing with them enormous political, social, and economic changes. They can often be traced back to some injustice, inequality, ...

What everyone likes to remember about the French Revolution is that it proclaimed the rights of man, including equality for all under the law. By comparison, its slightly older and wiser sister, the ...

It's the middle of the summer, and once more our thoughts turn to that special place in our consciousness we reserve for July 4. We will again celebrate what we have and how we got it. We may even ...

It depends how you count, but at least three. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How many revolutions did France have? It seems like ...

Karl Marx was a mediocre economist and a poor prophet. Still, he had some style. There is his famous aphorism about “the men who make History but know nothing of the History they are making.” Today, ...