Though Marie Antoinette may not have actually said, “Let them eat cake,” the French monarchy and aristocracy displayed an ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants ... and the common people (the Third Estate). The Third Estate disagre ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France, Louis XVI, ruled with absolute power over his people. This was a country ... much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ...

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 ...

I pardon my enemies, and I desire that my death should serve the French people and ... taken the lives of common criminals proved to be an important symbol for the revolution.