Anna Barker's latest column takes a look at the French Revolution.

David A. Bell teaches French history at Princeton. His “Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Two hundred twenty-six years after ...

Saturday was Bastille Day, the French holiday commemorating a pivotal moment of the French Revolution: The storming of the Bastille prison. But in addition to remembering the revolutionaries with a ...

Until this book by Keith Michael Baker appeared in late 2025, there had been only two English-language biographies of ...

Whenever a revolutionary movement begins calling for the existing social order to be overthrown, it doesn’t take long for a reference to July 14, 1789, to surface – that’s when an angry mob dismantled ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. During the 1920s, as Europe watched economic chaos unfolding in the Weimar Republic, the French historian ...

Bastille Day celebrations mark a historical motif that has been imprinted on French society since, writes LARA MARLOWE in Paris… Bastille Day celebrations mark a historical motif that has been ...