On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, a moment that changed the course of the French Revolution and sent shockwave ...

Discover the identity of the last monarch to hold the French crown, Louis-Philippe I, and explore the revolutions of the 19th ...

Philippe Collin makes intricate series that are reshaping how French people understand uncomfortable parts of their history. Millions are tuning in.

In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French ...

UNI News Analysis <br />By Ramesh Bhan <br />New Delhi, Jan 26 (UNI) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Luís Santos da Costa who were Chief ...

Passage to a Better World - The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein; Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon ...

Nearly 50 years ago the Iranian revolution that toppled the Pahlavi dynasty enjoyed mass support, but like the 1789 French revolution or Russia after 1917, it rapidly succumbed to the Saturn-like ...

It took time for January 26 to become an official national day for Australia. In 1838, on the 50th anniversary of the ...

The move, which comes after the killing of protesters, brings the European Union in line with the United States and Canada.

The EU missed the turn to hard power largely because of a factor that is still shaping Europe to this day: the legacy of empire. For when, in 1954, it came time for the French parliament to ratify the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron did not say he was ready to go to war with the U.S. and Russia in a January 2026 speech to ...