After the revolution, one of the ways the French government seized assets, property, and art collections. Introduction...
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Alchemy was an art, a scientific and technological project that foreshadowed modern chemistry. Alchemy, with its cryptic...
A comparison of the concept of the “general will” in revolutionary France. Introduction The concept of the...
Enlightenment debates about colonialism had very little to do with what actually happened on the ground. While...
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Rasse des Noeux was a considerable bibliophile and man of letters. Why do we often sign and...
The story behind the unusual form of a French chandelier made in the early 1800s. Introduction One...
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from...
Versailles was the location of two seismic shifts in political culture. Ten million tourists flock to Versailles...
Jewish would-be artists began arriving in Paris in the decade before the First World War. Jews were...
It was an era and a culture that was both misogynist and racist, in which Jews from...
Basville’s private correspondence reveals aspects of his character that deepen our understanding of the intendancy in the...
Dealing in false coinage was said to undermine the king’s prerogative to issue currency, illegally reproduce his...
The concept of absolutism – the divine right to rule – dominated the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
Exploring how topography was deployed as an instrument of French state formation in Louis Garneray’s Vues des...
The law’s “brooding presence” was very real to political actors in early modern France. Old Regime France,...
In the nineteenth century, domesticity and maternity became the primary cultural expectation for French women. In the...
Calling the French liars, atheists, and libertines, undoubtedly evoked a general sense of immorality and disrepute. In...
The extensive response in the British press was unprecedented. Abstract Although Europe had celebrated the end of...
The Napoleonic wars illustrate how warfare, seemingly the most conventional object of history, defies history’s most conventional...
Here are five things to know about this groundbreaking, tragic figure. You probably haven’t heard of Émilie du...
Criticism of the monarchy in the press was suppressed during this period. By Jennifer Hight Introduction The...