The film recounts the events of the French Revolution through the perspective of George Ro, a lawyer from the Third Estate. He reflects on the significant changes in France from the monarchy to the ...

He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

It started as a protest over the price of bread, but the women's march on Versailles ended up shaking the foundations of the ...

but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

Illustration of the storming of the Bastille prison, in an event that has come to be seen as the start of the French Revolution ... the king called upon the Estates-General—an assembly that ...

At the time, French society ... than the other estates, broke off and formed a national assembly. Inspired by Enlightenment principles and emboldened by the recent American Revolution, they ...