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.

The French Revolution Offers a Warning About Presidential Immunity 7 minute read 'Call for the Last Victims of the Terror' - painting by Charles Louis Lucien Müller, c. 1850. Culture Club/Getty ...

Compare the list of leaders in the French Revolution with that of the leaders of the Revolution in England — Eliot, Pym, Hampden, Cromwell, Ireton — in character, capacity, loftiness of aim.

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 ...

For many people, however, mention of this period of French history leads to the vision of a bloodthirsty Revolution indiscriminately sending to their death thousands of nobles.