P. M. McDonough

In France in October 1789, after a year of failed harvests and hunger—and sharpening tensions between the legislative and executive...

That first flush must have been heaven. No shivery walks to the back-garden privy; no night-soil men hauling away the family’s collective...

In December 1891, a hellish miasma once again held London in its grip. For much of the nineteenth century, recurring fogs had plagued...

If you are going to read just one history of the French Revolution, choose The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert...

Typing the words “French Revolution” into a Google search will produce a message something like this: “about 45,100,000 results (0.44...

Real-life characters who did not survive the Revolution: King Louis XVI went to the guillotine in January 1793; Marie-Antoinette followed...