A rediscovery of the wreck of an sunken narrowboat has led to the resurfacing of a tale of tragic death on the canals of ...

1789 is one of the most significant dates in history – famous for the revolution in France with its cries of ‘Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!’ that led to the removal of the French upper classes. The ...

Lauren Gunderson’s 2018 play The Revolutionists at Theatre Knoxville Downtown blends the historical with the hysterical in a ...

A model guillotine has been saved from the chop after it was taken to a recycling centre in Grimsby. The wooden structure, which has a blade splattered with fake blood, is one of a number of ...

2.1. In order to put an end to the excess of the Reign of Terror, the National Convention voted to execute Robespierre and several other leading members of the Terror ...

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

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PARIS — You know political speculation has gotten out of control when even children are badgering the French prime minister on who his successor will be. Rife conjecture, lengthy talks and a ...

A security crisis in the French pacific island territory of New Caledonia and parliamentary snap elections this year caused additional expenses, he added. Outgoing Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire ...

On Wednesday evening (local time), French President Emmanuel ... no Storming of the Bastille, no guillotine, because tonight the most beautiful revolution starts — the Paralympic revolution ...

the guillotine. South Carolina is scheduled to get back into the execution business Sept. 20 when a 46-year-old man, Freddie Eugene Owens, is set to die for the 1997 death and armed robbery of a ...