Bastille

How the people of France captured a Parisian prison and brought down the French monarchy once said that a riot is the language of the unheard. For centuries before 1789, politics in the Kingdom of France concerned itself with kings and noblemen.

The story of how a tennis court became one of the most important sites in radical history... You might expect revolutions to start out in factories, shipyards, or prisons – not luxury tennis courts.

The story of how student protests led France to the brink of full-scale revolution... Students of radical history always end up at the same question: why is it always Paris?

Everyone's heard of the French Revolution - but did you know there was more than one? Revolutions don’t usually begin with dinner parties. By 1848, France had been the European champion of revolutionary politics for half a century.