the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be dismantled. Fearing powerlessness, the nobility and landowners joined the National Assembly.

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... It was also supremely democratic, killing both commoners and nobility in just the same way. Now this democratic killing machine was about ...

It brought together 1200 delegates from the clergy (the First Estate), the nobility (the Second Estate ... While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty, equality, fraternity ...

Nobles mingling in a castle, talking about unemployment? At an event by the Association for the Mutual Assistance of the French Nobility, aristocrats got help on how to make it through hard times.

The French Revolution, which began in 1789 ... an extraordinary number of people still qualify as "French nobility," some related to former royal rulers of France. According to a BBC report ...