It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the ...

In the summer of 1789, simmering anger and resentment exploded into full-blown class war on the streets of Paris ... much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ...