Explore the art of French, engage with its cultures and rediscover your own through others’ perspectives. The Department of French Studies offers about 30 courses in French language, literature and ...
THE call for a third edition of Mr. Beesly’s apologetic Life of Danton 1 seems to show that there is Danton in the political air. In fact, some of the features of the French Revolution, notably the ...
Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels in ...
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 ...
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Jean-Paul Marat Was the Prophet of the French Revolution
Until this book by Keith Michael Baker appeared in late 2025, there had been only two English-language biographies of ...
Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread starvation in ...
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