3.35- The Law of 14 Frimaire

In the spring of 1794. the Revolution devoured a few of her most beloved children.

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If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent. 

After Antony failed to conquer Parthia, the Triumvirate partnership broke down, leading to a declaration of war. 

In 303 AD Diocletian initiated the last and greatest of the Christian persecutions. 

Desde finales del siglo XVII, el alumbrado público permitió moverse por las ciudades con sensación de seguridad. 

In the decades after the Gauls abandoned Rome to its fate, the Romans were forced to battle both external threats and internal sedition. The Plebes, saddled with debt from the reconstruction, forced through reforms in 367 BC that finally gave them access to the most powerful offi ...  Show more