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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 ...
Dickens, and others, pointed to the literal guillotine as way to describe the insatiable, blind, and destructive appetite of the French revolutionaries -- the mob.
They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...
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 ...
The replica of the execution device made famous by the French Revolution sold for the equivalent of $9,355. But the auction drew criticism from a French watchdog that says its sale is too sensitive.
Crowds have been flocking to the Metropolitan Opera to take in a heart-wrenching tale of religious persecution that continues into the next two weekends.