The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants ... and the common people (the Third Estate). The Third Estate disagre ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France, Louis XVI, ruled with absolute power over his people. This was a country ... much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...