Michelet understood the French Revolution as a collective triumph; he describes it as the destruction of a world built up by centuries of oppression, and the creation of a new order, for the ...

A historian’s account of modern revolutions finds that while some dictators have been opposed by popular movements, others ...

THE OPIUM OF THE INTELLECTUALS (324 pp.)—Raymond Aron—Doubleday ($4.50). French intellectuals are never happier than when planting the horns of a dilemma on another Frenchman’s head.

As Author Herold (editor of the Stanford University Press) tells it, in his Book-of-the-Month biography, Germaine espoused the French Revolution with such enthusiasm that she became a behind-the ...

“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the ... long hours hunched over books. Her father, Patrice Higonnet, is ...

While Lora Jones’s debut is largely concerned with the impact of the French Revolution on the role and advancement of women (despite women’s involvement in some of the revolution’s most ...