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Slavery in New France from Canada to Louisiana

Matthew McIntosh — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:27:20 +0000

The Canadian Museum of History traces the enslavement of Indigenous people and Africans in New France and shows

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:47:14 +0000

Charles X’s attack on opposition newspapers in July 1830 turned an electoral crisis into open resistance. Popular revolt

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:19 +0000

Louis XI ruled through information, cultivating courtiers, diplomats, towns, and messengers to learn what rivals were doing and

Matthew McIntosh — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:27:19 +0000

Across the Illinois Country, French settlers built farming villages, forts, and trade networks, creating a colonial society whose

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:14:22 +0000

Early modern France reveals daily life shaped by work, family, faith, class, gender, food, authority, and the pressures

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:02:00 +0000

The Jacquerie uprising of 1358 revealed how war, taxation, and aristocratic privilege pushed rural communities in medieval France

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:31:53 +0000

By making the state inseparable from the sovereign’s image, Louis XIV achieved extraordinary control in the present while

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:31:25 +0000

Napoleon’s most enduring and dangerous achievement was not territorial expansion or imperial spectacle, but the quiet success of

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:23:13 +0000

The reign of Charles VI demonstrates that political systems are often capable of surviving incapacity far longer than

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:59:23 +0000

In Ancien Régime France, secret arrest and detention were not anomalies or abuses at the margins of authority.