Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléans will host its annual Bastille Day Fête on Friday, July 11, commemorating the ...

Not only is it necessary to impose a stronger burden of justice on billionaires, but more importantly, it is possible.” Seven Nobel laureates on Monday published an op-ed advocating for “a minimum tax ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

Nor is French the national language in Luxembourg – and it is only one of three national languages in Belgium. Yet French was declared the only language of legislation in Belgium’s 1831 constitution ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

Dominique de Villepin, who recently announced a new political party, says in an exclusive written interview with Al-Monitor ...

Smog once choked Paris streets. Now, cleaner air, grassroots pressure and a bold city agenda are reshaping how the city breathes and moves. From bottom-up activism to political pushback, Paris’s ...

In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.

After years of mounting frustration, the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the first violent step toward a real revolution. The French Revolution would ultimately last about 10 years, ...