June 20th has been a date marked by remarkable moments throughout history, spanning politics, science, culture, and ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

The ninth of November, 1799—the 18th of Brumaire in the calendar of the French Revolution—is often remembered as the day the Revolution ended. Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Italy and ...

This assembly of the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate), had not convened since 1614. But their historic meeting in May 1789 did little to soothe the ...

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On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...

Well, the third estate believe they are disadvantaged by the voting system. But Mr. Necker advises me not to be part of the debate, not to intervene. He thinks they can sort it out for themselves.

The second estate was the nobility, including the royal family, who had the ability to collect taxes from the third estate. The third estate was everyone else, the 96 per cent, from poor peasants to ...

The term “Third World” had been launched in 1952, by analogy with the Third Estate during the French Revolution. Many activists believed that the French working class had become passive and that 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.