Thousands of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison, in Paris on 1789. The Bastille symbolised the ...

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French revolution – 1830 Reunion of National Museums (France)/File. ... according to Bernard Moss, a history professor at the Institute of European Studies in London. ...

1. The quality that makes Jules Michelet’s history so powerful is what the French call souffle—literally, breath; figuratively, inspiration, creativity, energy. Michelet understood the French ...