French Revolution
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The institution was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 to promote economic recovery after the French Revolution.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
"You can't take to the barricades like they did in the French Revolution and storm the Bastille. You just hope that somebody somewhere does the job and sorts the problem out."
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Europe’s savage self-destruction reunited techne and themis: the technologies of the Industrial Revolution and the ideologies of the French Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
As demonstrated by the outbreaks of the English Civil War in 1642 and the French Revolution in 1789, fiscal breakdown caused a loss of political legitimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
One is a Mass he wrote for Reims Cathedral, newly rebuilt but subsequently destroyed in the French Revolution, and which, as it happens, had a complex maze set into its nave.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
