The revolution sent shockwaves across the monarchies and governments of Europe ... the French Revolution didn’t happen in Belfast. MAX: Ah, but in a funny way it did! MAX: It’s 1789 and ...

By 1789 France was broke ... ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...