The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French ...

The French Revolution, which took place between 1789 and 1799, is one of the most significant events in the world.

Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the ...

Jacques Louis David’s ‘Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze)’ is a tense painting created just before the chemist was guillotined.

The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789, is seen as a defining event in the French Revolution. But how does the ...

App-based walking tour explores tumultuous period and describes points of interest across neighbourhoods with historical ...

As the architect of the French Revolution, Robespierre sent thousands to the guillotine. But a despairing love letter from jail sparked a power struggle that ended with his own neck on the block ...

They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

August 1792. Twenty-thousand people storm the palace of King Louis XVI of France. Six months later the king is guillotined: France is a Republic. July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people have had their ...

Myth: Joseph Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine, was beheaded by the very device he had introduced during the Terror, the period of political instability that followed the French Revolution.

James Gillray (1756 -1815), The Zenith of French Glory; -the Pinnacle of Liberty, 12 February 1793. Etching. Graphic Arts GA201-01475 The British caricaturist James Gillray drew this printed to ...

Which path was better, the sober—if contentious—path of the American Revolution or the bloody, lawless, and unrestrained French Revolution?