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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people have had their heads chopped off. Republican leader Robespierre gets guillotined as well. The Revolution is over. January 2024. Members of the international ...

Parvev, Ivan 2019. The Struggle for World Dominationand the Great Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878. Slavs and Russia, p. 137.

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 ...

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 French Revolution began in 1789 and lasted until the end of the 18 th century. It was brought on by the public’s general disapproval of French aristocracy and King Louis XVI’s lavish ...