Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“This may interest you. A letter from my dear cousin Fouquier-Tinville.” Camille cast an eye over his relative’s best handwriting. “Squirm, flattery,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and… — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
“The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“It seems as if historicist ideas easily become prominent in times of great social change. They appeared when Greek tribal life broke… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We should say to the West: "You have been supporting dictators for too many years. Don't expect the people to introduce democracy… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“By giving full expression to the contradiction between civil society and the state, the French Revolution radically transformed both its terms. To… — Stathis Kouvelakis Copy Share Image
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Robespierre women (as one tended to think of them now) were all on display. Madame looked actively, rather intimidatingly benevolent; it… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“God knows,” Charpentier said, “I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Commoners already paid the lion’s share of national taxes and, because of these old feudal records, they now also paid a whole… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“The Bastille, where I live, is best known as the site where the infamous prison was seized and ransacked by the masses,… — David Lebovitz Copy Share Image
“Goethe (I don’t know why, but Goethe somehow always speaks up in my critical moments) said: “Man must experience his own destiny”… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“Marx’s Manifesto, published in 1847, reflects the state of historical science of the period. It fixes the thirteenth century as the beginning… — Régine Pernoud Copy Share Image
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
