The Society of 1789
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we left off last time with the National Constituent Assembly moving forward with its plans to nationalize the French Catholic Church. Today, that process will take another huge step forward. But the Church was not the only thing on the table in the spring and early summer of 1790. […]
Birth of the Jacobins
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. The Women’s March on Versailles fundamentally changed the course of the French Revolution. By dragging the King back to Paris, the political dynamic is about to shift dramatically. For one thing, no one was quite sure whether the King was there of his own free will or whether he was […]