Movies about the French Revolution are diverse, including costume dramas, horror films, comedies, and more, all set during ...

This volume French New Wave: A Revolution in Design celebrates the groundbreaking poster art in selling these Nouvelle Vague films to the masses and the artists involved were at the forefront of a ...

Now that France is in turmoil, its chickens-come-home-to-roost riots so like our own instability, it’s fitting that the Midyear Reckoning is primarily of French movies. The prospect of Western ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Reading the great Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, however, helped me to appreciate the differences between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In contemporary ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. Near the center of Paris, in the ...