Ideas like democracy - which means that we are able to choose our own leaders. Freedoms such ... the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would ...

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 ...

yet by the time of the French Revolution it had turned into a glaring symbol of royal failure. Now EU leaders who are here for a two-day summit hope to project an image of unity in the face of ...