Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...
There’s no way to bargain with the Communists—you get nothing.” —Cardinal Zen A century before Pope Pius X, there was Pius ...
The Reign of Terror, the guillotine, the Bastille, the Third Estate: The history of the French Revolution comes to life on ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Most people know of 1789, when the starving peasants and the ambitious bourgeoisie ...
Raymond Aceto’s well-seasoned bass boomed imposingly for the pompous Marquis de la Force, father of Blanche and the Chevalier ...
In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular appearances, usually at the instigation of a demagogue, loudly ...
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