The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Peasant and French examines the relationship between French peasants and the ...

Marie Antoinette was heavily disliked by many of the French people ... These initial steps towards revolution were taken by members of the bourgeoise, not the peasants. The delegates were upper ...

Nevertheless, the French colonial regime continued to lose group to the revolutionary Viet Minh from 1946 to 1954. Once more, a popular revolution, based on peasant discontent, broke out.