1789 is one of the most significant dates in history – famous for the revolution in France with its cries of ‘Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!’ that led to the removal of the French upper classes. The ...

Source: J.M. Roberts, French Revolution Documents, vol. 1 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966), 151­53. Translated and excerpted in Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ...

[17] The Senate passed the Judiciary Act on July 17, 1789 with a vote of 14 to 6. The House of Representatives debated the bill on seven different days and passed it without a roll call vote on ...

In 1789, Catholicism was the official religion of France – five years later worship was suppressed. The French Revolution posed problems for religion, but religion also posed plenty of problems for ...

What happens when a people decide to govern themselves? America’s national treasures come to life in this compelling exhibition that examines the bold experiment to create a government “of the people, ...

Using a diverse range of sources, Robert H. Blackman reconstructs key constitutional debates, from the initial convocation of the Estates General in Versailles in May 1789, to the National Assembly ...

In 1789 the bourgeoisie made common cause with the peasantry and the urban labouring classes to begin the Revolution. The Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution was increasingly challenged ...

In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems. It brought together 1200 delegates from the clergy (the First ...

It is important in lighting design that there is no flicker and that there are no strobe effects. Visually perceptible flicker is definitely a deficiency. But even flicker at high frequencies which ...

Campbell, James 2013. The Death of Frank Wilson: Race, Crime, and Punishment in Post-Civil War Pennsylvania. American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 14, Issue. 3, p. 305. Pashman, Howard 2013. The ...

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799, leading to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution was not a single event but a series of developments that unfolded between 1789 ...