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French History
It's a Revolution: The Storming of the 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.
To Live Working or to Die Fighting: The Canut Revolts
The story of how silk workers in Lyon heralded a new era of class-based radical struggle...
The Battle of Valmy
It was on this day in 1792 that the old European powers were trounced by French revolutionaries...
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