French Revolution

The author describes how the French Revolution was received by the British. At first, many citizens saw a cause to celebrate. But as the Revolution proceeded, disillusionment set in for many people.

A one-page summary of the life and philosophy of influential eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish Parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whose theories of government led him to sympathize with the American colonists against the British crown, to...

George III (1760-1815). The first two Hanoverian kings were ignorant of English politics and obliged to rely on their ministers. Moreover, they cared more for Hanover than for England. But George II had English ideas. He was born and...

Historical overview of Louis XIV and XV reigns in France as a comparison between an absolute monarch and an enlightened monarch. Details the varying styles of two monarchs-one oppressive to the human spirit and a counter-cultural...

A French Jacobin, born in Province, in 1755, of an ancient family; served as second lieutenant in the regiment of Languedoc until 1775. He made, about this time, a voyage to the Isle-de-France, the governor of which was one of his...