French Revolution

July 17 – Martyred in the Name of Equality

July 15, 2013

The Marquis of Lescure destroys two thirds of Westermann’s army and saves the lives of captured enemy soldiers

July 1, 2013

June 17, 1793: Pius VI condemns the revolutionary concepts of liberty and equality

June 17, 2013

An anxious moment for Marie Antoinette in the Temple prison

May 30, 2013

Natural Inequalities Should Also Exist in a True Democracy

May 16, 2013

The Legitimacy and Even Necessity of Just and Proportional Inequalities Among the Social Classes

May 6, 2013

A multi-secular struggle between nobility and leveling egalitarianism

May 2, 2013

Marie Antoinette comforts the Dauphin

April 22, 2013

April 18 – Blessed Marie de l’Incarnation

April 18, 2013

April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality

April 15, 2013

March 28 – The capture and death of the fearless Charette

March 28, 2013

Recipe: Celebrating 150 Year Anniversary of D.O.M. Benedictine

March 11, 2013

The death of the de la Metairie sisters ends the Terror of Nantes

February 18, 2013

The portress who forgave the revolutionary murderer of her only son

February 14, 2013

Marie Antoinette comforts the Dauphin

February 11, 2013

Larochejacquelein is killed by the men whose lives he spared

January 28, 2013

220 years ago today, this king was put to death – just for being a king

January 21, 2013

Romanée-Conti: symbol of tradition and nobility

January 14, 2013

Louis XVIII’s policy of peaceful coexistence paves the way for the French Republic

November 29, 2012

Effects of the French Revolution on America

November 22, 2012

The Aristocratic Republic (1788-1828)

November 15, 2012

Queen Margrethe of Denmark criticizes “global warming” hysteria

October 22, 2012

October 17 – The Battle of Cholet

October 15, 2012

October 3 – Mother Théodore Guérin

October 1, 2012

A Requiem for Manners

September 3, 2012

The Long List of September Martyrs of the French Revolution, Blessed John du Lau and Companions

September 3, 2012

Paris pours out its heart in welcoming the brother of the King it executed

August 27, 2012

Many members of the Society of the Cincinnati were killed during the Terror

August 9, 2012

July 17 – Martyred in the Name of Equality

July 16, 2012

Madame Elizabeth ponders the horrors afflicting France during the Revolution

June 25, 2012

Post-Napoleonic Paris’s enthusiasm at the triumphal entry of its prince

May 7, 2012

Marie Antoinette was destroyed after she had reformed her ways

May 7, 2012

Madame Elisabeth: the princess who confronted a Revolution

April 23, 2012

April 17 – One of the many nobles who spread the Cluny reform

April 16, 2012

Alone, Marie Antoinette confronts the revolutionary mob

March 26, 2012

Frequently, great institutions are not overthrown, they self-destruct

March 26, 2012

The Dauphin is wrenched from Marie Antoinette

February 27, 2012

Marie Antoinette: Ever majestic, though anxious as she discerns the approaching Revolution

February 2, 2012

Weak authority and unbridled liberty

February 2, 2012

Death is preferable to the telling of a lie

January 12, 2012

Yes to Beauty, No to Insanity!

December 29, 2011

The Count and The Chimneysweep

December 26, 2011

The Story of Jambe d’Argent and M. Jacques

December 19, 2011

The Chouan family gave everything for altar and throne

October 24, 2011

Last Letter of Marie-Antoinette

October 13, 2011

Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Capetian Widow

October 13, 2011

The Liberty and Equality Spread by the French Revolution: Fallacious Concepts Disseminated by Most-Perfidious Philosophers

September 19, 2011

The Abuse of Liberty and Equality Leads to Socialism and Communism

September 5, 2011

Their sole “crime” was having sheltered a priest

September 1, 2011

September 2-3 – The September Martyrs of the French Revolution, Blessed John du Lau and Companions

September 1, 2011

A Certain Democracy Goes So Far in Perversity as to Attribute Sovereignty to the People in Society and to Aim at the Suppression and Leveling of the Classes

August 29, 2011

August 26 – This noblewoman survived the Terror and founded the Sisters of the Cross

August 25, 2011

Two heroic deaths honor nobility of blood and nobility of soul

August 22, 2011

Astonishing adult literacy rates in France before the 1789 French Revolution

August 22, 2011

The Revolution’s barbarism is highlighted by a sister’s heroic offer

August 15, 2011

The French Revolution implemented socio-political egalitarianism

August 11, 2011

Omnifarious Liberty and Absolute Equality: Foolish and Even Monstruous Concepts

August 8, 2011

Jean Chouan’s widowed mother obtains the King’s pardon for her son

August 4, 2011

The death of the de la Metairie sisters ends the Terror of Nantes

August 1, 2011

Marie Antoinette was a Good Samaritan

July 28, 2011

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