Exploring what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play....
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Being in debt was once an artful promenade — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and...
The French context is so incredibly problematic when it comes to dealing with the whole history of...
Records of the Parisian gallery Tedesco frères tell a story of commercial success. By Dr. Isabella Zuralski-YeagerSpecial...
Amiens Cathedral provides a window into the practice and culture of religious belief of the Middle Ages....
Although declaimed against at the time of the French Revolution, it was used both by the revolutionary...
They followed a similar pattern of studying abroad for a few years and returning home to teach...
It could be an early scene in a monster movie. In fact, it’s an image of the...
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, established in 1648 oversaw – and held a monopoly over...
On the morning of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte falsely persuaded the Councils that a Jacobin coup was...
After the revolution, one of the ways the French government seized assets, property, and art collections. Introduction...
Some citizens were more equal than others. Introduction Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic...
People had become less and less likely to lend much credibility to witness testimony. One lazy afternoon...
Alchemy was an art, a scientific and technological project that foreshadowed modern chemistry. Alchemy, with its cryptic...
After enduring decades of exploitation at the hands of the French, Haiti was forced to pay a...
Philadelphia experienced a tumult of both anti-French and anti-Federalist sentiment. Philadelphia, as capital of the United States...
A comparison of the concept of the “general will” in revolutionary France. Introduction The concept of the...
What did it mean to become a citizen of the new nation? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
Enlightenment debates about colonialism had very little to do with what actually happened on the ground. While...
Exploring the legacy of the empire and state-system imposed on Europe during the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon has...
Examining the experiences of exiles, returnees, and migrants and challenges faced by them. Abstract This article contributes...
During one attack in 1393, Charles could not remember his name, did not know he was king,...
French revolutionaries aimed to jettison the old order and everything associated with it. During the Revolution, the...
By the end of the thirteenth century the social context for the abandonment of infants and children...
Examining the similarities and differences between Leroy-Beaulieu and Prévost-Paradol’s respective colonial models. In the last years of...
The year 1830 was important for a distant event: the bombardment by French forces of the Barbary...
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris—the Catacombs—was started as a solution to the intrusion...
Huguenots were not only believers in science, but also remained firmly committed to their belief in God...
The war owes its historical significance to a number of factors. Introduction The Hundred Years’ War is...
A Getty exhibition illuminates the medieval cathedral’s role in European history and spotlights wondrous objects that survived...