The newly created Legislative Assembly wanted to ... Years later Thomas Jefferson would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided: "Your prophecies," he wrote to Adams, ...

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... It was promoted, not invented, by Dr Joseph Guillotine. “Now with my machine”, he said, “I can cut off your head in the twinkling ...

but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The execution of ...

Travel back in time to late 18th century France and follow the development of the French Revolution. What were the underlying causes for the revolution? What was the Reign of Terror? Who was ...