The idea that politicians operate on a spectrum, with the right on one end and the left on the other, originated with the French Revolution, when royalists sat on the right side of the National ...

Hardman claims it was one of “the darkest moments of the French Revolution ... demands of the revolution, at least during 1788 and 1789. Burkean conservatives and loyal royalists will no ...

The newly founded Republican troops fought against the Catholic Royalists for over three years. The nuances of this particular episode of the French Revolution are routinely questioned today ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses the reign of terror during the French Revolution and whether it was an aberration of the revolutionary cause or its natural culmination. Show ...