French Revolution

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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

The term “Thermidorian,” central in the book, points to that period in the French Revolution following the toppling of the radical Jacobins.

From The Wall Street Journal

Conservatism in the political sense arose in the modern world as a direct reaction to the French Revolution and, more indirectly, as a response to the Enlightenment.

From Salon