The Catholic Church becomes the revolution’s most tenacious and ferocious foe. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy forces the nation to choose between revolution and religion. Was this conflict inevitable, or did the revolutionaries simply...
While debate raged about the revolution’s ideas, the people found ways to celebrate them. Throughout 1789 and 1790, a whole series of new traditions, customs and artefacts were created to celebrate the revolution and unite the nation in a...
Listening to Episode 18 “A Popular Revolution”? Check out this collection of federations, ceremonies, Phrygian caps and liberty trees.