French Prime Minister Michel Barnier succeeded in forming a government after long negotiations, but its days are already ...

Although it is an unlikely weapon, the “flying guillotine” was a big hit with martial arts fans when it featured in the eponymous film The Flying Guillotine in 1975. The gruesome invention ...

Want to make French fries the fun way? Try this potato cannon, crinkle fry cutting guillotine, or mandolin slicer.

With radical groups rounding up the citizenry and imprisoning, executing and persecuting at will, entropy was the order of ...

Ten monumental golden statues representing French women from the worlds of art, literature, sport and politics are shortly to ...

BASED on a true story, gripping French courtroom drama The Goldman Case (12A) explores the second trial of Left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman in 1976, after he was accused of double murder. The ...

Once the site of more than 1,000 French Revolution guillotine executions – including those of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette – La Place de la Concorde was given its current name in an act of ...

Thousands would bring lunches (and plenty to drink) to public squares to prepare to witness executions, sometimes by guillotine. During the U.S. Civil War, there was an actual tailgate-like gathering.

In the aftermath of World War II, a cinematic movement emerged that would characterize and embody the zeitgeist of an entire generation of youth, pushing boundaries for years to come: The French ...

PARIS >> French president Emmanuel Macron declared ... Rest assured, tonight, no Storming of the Bastille, no guillotine, because tonight the most beautiful revolution starts — the paralympic ...

The last queen of France before the French Revolution overthrew her husband ... Unflatteringly nicknamed Madame Deficit, she was executed by guillotine in 1793. Courtesy of V&A Museum However ...

Now that the state of South Carolina has three court-approved methods that a condemned convict can choose from to meet his maker, it’s curious lawmakers didn’t consider a tried-and-true method ...