French Revolution

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A casualty of the upheavals of the French Revolution, Roland is a dramatic counterexample to the other figures in Ms. Stalnaker’s original and beautifully written book.

From The Wall Street Journal

The last David retrospective was in 1989, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, and if there is another, it probably won’t be until 2048, the 300th anniversary of his birth.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.

From The Wall Street Journal

Compulsory military training for young men had been part of national life since the French Revolution, which created the idea of the citizen-soldier.

From BBC

Nothing was more frustrating to them on the eve of the French Revolution than the realization that the majority of Frenchmen didn’t speak French.

From The Wall Street Journal