The French Revolution

"But is this a revolt?" And Liancourt's visionary reply to the king: "No, Sire, it is a revolution!"

France in the 1780s is in trouble. The crisis is widespread, political as much as economic. With public debt dangerously inflated by the conflict with England, the French monarchy has very little room to manoeuvre.

Discover in this Little Guide: France reforms itself, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Tennis Court Oath, the key events of this era and more...