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

The Place de la Bastille is often considered the epicenter of the French ... France. Once a royal palace, the Conciergerie ...

Rising prices in Paris ... of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism. France had abolished ...