He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies ...