Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...

Today, we think of 1700s-era France as a period of unwashed and unparalleled squalor. While this is partially a misconception, it does contain some truth. During the 18th century, people's attitudes ...

Though Marie Antoinette may not have actually said, “Let them eat cake,” the French monarchy and aristocracy displayed an almost laughable disconnection from common people in the decades leading up to ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... She opposed the execution of King Louis XVI and wanted the people of France to choose their own form government, without violence.

In “The Revolutionists,” Rice Arts  discusses the value of drama to make sense of, and guide our response to, turbulent ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

Though the farthest flung draw for the New York summer people, the Clark’s summer ... painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the Bonaparte era from the wee pharaoh ...

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... it felt like the reign of hysteria and paranoia. All around Paris, people were waiting for the knock on the door and the streets of the ...

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 ...