The Martyrs of Compiègne, a group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution ...

Some of the gems may have featured in a royal scandal known as the "affair of the diamond necklace" that damaged the French queen’s reputation in 1785 Sarah Kuta The artwork was a gift from the ...

A dispute over a project to cure hams in a bell tower underscored the difficulties that churches in France face trying to pay ...

Movies about the French Revolution are diverse, including costume dramas, horror films, comedies, and more, all set during ...

It is a surprising coda to the broadly anticlerical French Revolution—not to mention seemingly dissonant with contemporary ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints. It was a rare decision, in that no one in the Church disagreed with it. In order to understand why the ...

Lethière (1760–1832) was, until the Clark and the Louvre joined in this show to survey his career, an unremembered history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the ...

During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in the crowds as they walked the streets of Paris. But with the Revolution, the role of executioners ...

Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and The Tyranny of Men Listen Download open in itunes Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is a professor of English at Princeton University and author of On Mary ...

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...