Two hundred years ago today, a mob of Parisian commoners stormed the Bastille, a 14th-century fortress being used as a jail, in hopes of seizing arms and ammunition. Their daring gesture turned out to ...

The bicentennial of the French Revolution is now upon us. As part of the celebration, Frenchmen are at each other’s throats again – this time (much like the first time) over the uestion of whether the ...

As the French national anthem so lustily puts it, ”Le jour de gloire est arrive!” On this side of the Atlantic, Chicago will celebrate that day of glory in dollars and cents, as businesses vie to ...

On Friday night, Chicago went gaga over its French connection, which began 316 years ago when a couple of Gallic visitors staked their flag in a smelly onion field next to a big lake. The rest of ...

The French Revolution is a landmark period in European history, but people still get a lot of it wrong. We're here to shed light on some of the most prevalent myths about Marie Antoinette, the ...

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from ...