Viral history is not always accurate
I went back to the original study behind a widely shared graph on inequality in pre-Revolutionary France to see whether the numbers actually support what the graph claims.
Up to the Estates-General
As both a witness to and a victim of the immortal war of the Vendée, I have endured a succession of events so dreadful and so extraordinary that I shall find it difficult to recount their sorrowful course. I regret only that I lack the talent to portray the heroic deeds I have witnessed. It […]