The first restaurants in Paris were based on the medicinal powers of soup, but these establishments soon transformed into the temples to gastronomy we know today.
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France has undergone thirteen major political shifts since 1789, and yet there have been very few major changes to the country’s elite.
History isn’t just learning facts. Students learn about the past by researching information and synthesising it to form an evidence-based argument. This skill is useful for a range of careers.
The French celebrate Quatorze Juillet, not Bastille Day. In fact, the English-language name hides much of the surprisingly complex history of the day.
His name has become a byword for deviancy and sexual cruelty. But Sade has also provided creative inspiration for generations of writers and artists.
The polarisation of today’s political discourse has echoes of the intolerance that characterised the Puritan era and the French Revolution.
The dangerous legacy of a letter received by Augustin Barruel, a French Catholic priest and famous conspiracy theorist, in the early 1800s.
Reactions in South Africa give little reason for hope that the virus will bring people closer together or trigger more energetic action against poverty.
Grisly early experiments laid the foundation of our understanding of how to keep organs ‘alive’ in isolation.
Bobi Wine in Uganda does it; so do the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa. The red beret is worn to signify the revolutionary. Its power lies in a symbolism that combines art and politics.
People get angry far more often than they rebel. And rebellions rarely become revolutions. An expert on the French Revolution explains why today’s protest movements are different.
Revolutions are built not on deep misery but on rising expectations. History may not provide much hope of immediate change in Hong Kong – but protesters may have a longer view.
Many recent executions in the US by lethal injections have resulted in prolonged suffering before death. A historian asks: Could the guillotine be a preferable method?
From coronations to Revolution to reconciliation, Notre Dame has witnessed nearly 900 years of French history.
The Notre Dame Cathedral was long a powerful symbol of church authority - but it wasn’t static. The design kept changing to keep up with the changing times.
From the French Revolution to #MeToo, social movements often burst into the mainstream with what seems like little warning. Cass Sunstein explains why.
Terrorism hasn’t always been associated with individuals – in the past, it has described violence used by the state against its subjects.
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a supremely skilled artist. But like so many talented women before and since, she suffered from snide allegations that she could not be capable of such brilliance.
This frail and often hated woman became a passionate advocate of a woman’s place in a democratic society before a tragic episode broke her.
Primary school children in France will now have to learn and sing La Marseillaise. But for many people, it is racist and xenophobic.
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Emeritus professor, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
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Adjunct Professor, Gordon College
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University Professor, Professor of International Relations and History, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Professor of French Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol
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Professor of Modern History, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, History and Curriculum Studies, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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University Professor, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer, History, Flinders University
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Maitre de conferences en histoire de l'Europe moderne, Université de York, Fellow 2018 - IEA de Paris, Institut d'études avancées de Paris (IEA) – RFIEA
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Enseignante-chercheuse, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Maître de conférences en histoire, Sorbonne Université
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PhD candidate in Early Modern History, Monash University
