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

It has become nearly a truism in English and other languages as well, particularly French, that revolutions devour their children. This is so often repeated and apparently shown to be true, in the ...

In 1793, Jacques Louis David, the official artist of the French Revolution, painted the Death of Marat as a tribute to his slain friend, the revolutionary propagandist Jean-Paul Marat, in the wake of ...

For centuries, historians have debated whether the “Great Fear” panic in the early days of the French Revolution was driven by the mass hysteria of ignorant peasants or a rational response to the ...

The display is timed for the anniversary of France’s abolition of the death penalty, and its honoring of the lawyer who ...