Maximilien de Robespierreborn in Arras in 1758, was one of the main political leaders of revolutionary France: he was part ...

The King has welcomed president Emmanuel Macron to Britain by upgrading the famous “entente cordiale” to the “entente amicale ...

Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

If you think 'Les Misérables' taught you everything you need to know about the French Revolution, you might be surprised to learn that it was actually set during a completely different uprising.

Steeped in the language of philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, their new polity’s founding document, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, touted a government whose sovereignty ...

In Revolution-era Paris, three radically chic media stars swept away centuries of strictures about what women should wear and how they should live. A new book unveils the other French Revolution.

Despite many of the Enlightenment’s most influential thinkers— René Descartes, M. de Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Baron de Montesquieu—being French, the Enlightenment was by no ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau turned opinion against the established order in a different way with his 1761 love story La Nouvelle Héloïse, France’s biggest 18th-century bestseller.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1753). Public domainBy any reckoning, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is one of the most influential Western philosophers in history. No ...