‘The French Revolution’ Review: Bastille Day and After

Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...
National Catholic Reporter

John McGreevy masterfully traces church history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

John McGreevy's new book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis is, as the title suggests, ambitious. Even at a little over 400 pages, how to distill a "global" ...
Time

What Actually Happened on the Original Bastille Day

Illustration of the storming of the Bastille prison, in an event that has come to be seen as the start of the French Revolution, 14th July 1789.Hulton Archive / Getty Images The French national ...
The New York Times

An Epic Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism

John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce. By Timothy Egan When you purchase an ...