Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...

France had abolished its monarchy only to find itself under the rule of an emperor. Years later Thomas Jefferson would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided ...

The End of France's Monarchy As it is with many former monarchies, if the status of the French royal families had a Facebook status, it would be, "It's complicated." The French Revolution ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France, Louis XVI, ruled with absolute ... like the monarchs before him, had spent vast fortunes on foreign wars but he hadn’t noticed the revolution brewing ...