Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...

CHICOPEE –For more than 25 years Jeanne Douillard has traced the history of the French in New England. A Springfield native and Greenfield resident, she is among the major contributors to The ...

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The French Revolution Pamphlets collection at Brandeis University's Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department consists of 94 documents (three linear feet) published ...

Let me take you back to 225 years ago to what were then the suburbs of Paris. An angry crowd gathered outside an old fortress in search of arms and gunpowder. The Bastille was nearly empty. There were ...