Marie Antoinette had four children, but tragedy and the French Revolution tore the queen apart from her offspring.

When angry commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, they struck a blow against one of the monarchy’s most forbidding symbols. The infamous prison no longer exists—it was destroyed in ...

Ever Disney fan blog has a theory about how Belle from Beauty and the Beast would have fared in the French Revolution. Whether that means yeeting off to England and becoming Jane’s grandmother or ...

In “The Revolutionary Temper,” the historian Robert Darnton immerses readers in the world of the everyday Parisians who would help topple the monarchy of Louis XVI. By Caroline Weber Caroline Weber is ...