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 ...

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

Explores how architect of French Revolution ended with his neck on the block ... ‘On the road to the guillotine, the smile had become a silent weapon of symbolic resistance,’ Jones says.

The guillotine is synonymous with the terror that followed the French Revolution, but did the machine's inventor really fall victim to his own creation?

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

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.

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 ...