In the history of France, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, extends from the French Revolution to the brink of World War I.
French peasants depicted in Fin du travail (1887)
Wealthy Parisians in an urban café or patisserie, 1889
Storming of the Bastille in 1789
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789
The Moderates or Moderate Republicans, pejoratively labeled Opportunist Republicans, was a French political group active in the late 19th century during the Third French Republic. The leaders of the g
President Jules Grévy
Prime Minister Jules Ferry, who resigned in 1885 after a political scandal called the Tonkin Affair