The title of this volume, part of The New Penguin History of France, is explained in Robert Gildea's opening sentences: "On every generation to which it gave birth the French Revolution left its mark.

Whatever else might be said of France in the 19th century, it wasn't dull. This panorama begins with the self-coronation of Napoleon and moves through the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 and the ...

In 1830 Greenwich in south east London was sitting in isolation, miles from the metropolis on a southern bend of the Thames. It housed a small collection of buildings at the time. Today Grenwich ...

London, and to a lesser extent Brussels, was the place of refuge for radicals fleeing repression after the European revolutions of 1830 and 1848. The city thus became the hub of revolutionary émigré ...

Women demanded suffrage again during the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, though these were "individual demands or those of small groups," Thébaud notes.

It survived the two lost Napoleonic wars; the war of 1870-71; it survived the revolutions of 1830 and 1848; and all the changes of government during the Third Republic.” ...

From the Jacquerie peasants’ revolt of the 100 Years’ War, the storming of the Bastille, the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Paris Commune of 1871 to the protests and strikes of May 1968.

This book sets out to place women artists working in Britain and France between 1760 and 1830—the “Age of Revolutions”—firmly within the art-historical narratives of the period. The task ...

It was authorized briefly after the July Revolution of 1830 but again prohibited by Napoleon III, and not reinstated until 1879. Lyrics Allons enfants de la Patrie, (Arise, children of the Fatherland) ...