History comes alive in this engaging video, which artfully sets up the first steps of the French Revolution. Students will relate to the idea of nobility living in luxury while 98% of the French citizens went without wealth or rights....

Vive la résistance! Provide young historians with a list of important people and events during the French Revolution and Napoleonic periods.

Watch actors reenact the Storming of the Bastille! Chaos was rampant as anarchy swept through the streets. A revolution was underway as King Louis XVI could not control the populace. Pictures and narration enhance this clip. Watch part...

Live vicariously through the riches and exorbitance of Louis XIV in this tour of Versailles palace and grounds. The presentation is a good way to provide context to your lesson on Versailles - and as a precursor to the righteous fury of...

Tour the grounds of the Versailles palace in this bright and vivid series of pictures. Intended to supplement a lecture on Louis XIV and the years preceding the French Revolution, these images will set a strong context for the enormous...

The creation of Versailles is the subject of this presentation, as well as Louis XIV's self-centered "absolutism." Briefly detailing the construction costs - both monetary and human - and the glorious results of the endeavor, this...