Object Details artist Philippoteaux, Felix Emmanuel Henri b. 1815 Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 147 "Description of the picture: from the Buffalo catalogue. 'the French Revolution ...

Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism.

Joseph Loconte, Ph.D., is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English ...

In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.