With the nation shocked by the King’s attempted escape, public debate erupted over the future of both the monarch and the monarchy...
Could Louis have talked himself out of his capture in Varennes? We also discuss a ground-breaking “world first” connected to...
Endangered by the rising power of both the far-left and the far-right, Louis finally decides to reject the revolution and flee the capital...
Examine two passionate defences of French nobility. Two members of the Third Estate, Jean-Sifrein Maury and Jacques Necker, argue against...
Explore Dom Gerle and Abbé Grégoire in David’s Tennis Court Oath and the latter’s invention of the word ‘vandalism’.
As religious divisions threaten the peace, the Assembly makes an enemy of France’s warrior class through the Abolition of Nobility in...
The Catholic Church becomes the revolution’s most tenacious and ferocious foe. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy forces the nation...
While debate raged about the revolution’s ideas, the people found ways to celebrate them. Throughout 1789 and 1790, a whole series of...
