Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public servant and patriot, and one ...

He likened himself to Alfred Dreyfus and Edmond Dantès, unjustly maligned heroes of French history and fiction. Trump went ...

Quote of the day by Victor Hugo, “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” As a leader of the Romantic movement, Hugo survived 19 years of political exile. He championed the ...

Will modern India see the rise of not one but two ideological parties, as happens in other democracies around the world?

In the middle of this political crisis, a small church, the Collégiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Roquemaure, 673km south of Paris, commissioned a poem to celebrate the restoration of their church organ.

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Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...

In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That ...

For centuries, historians have debated whether the “Great Fear” panic in the early days of the French Revolution was driven by the mass hysteria of ignorant peasants or a rational response to the ...