Louis, like the monarchs before him ... hadn’t noticed the revolution brewing on his doorstep. France was almost bankrupt but the people who mostly had the money - the nobility and the church ...

Throughout the 18th century, France ... French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be dismantled. Fearing powerlessness, the nobility and ...

Simply put, without assistance from France, the American Revolution might have been over before it began. Washington's dejected line became famous because it proves exactly how close to the edge ...