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 ...

and one of the largest factions in revolutionary France, the Gironde, is calling for war against Austria. The French people’s hatred of Marie Antoinette has always fuelled suspicion of the ...

Sixteen Carmelite sisters who were executed by guillotine in Paris on 17 July 1794, during the blood-soaked and chaotic phase ...

Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and confirmed ...

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of King Louis XVI to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...

Nearly 200 years before a catastrophic fire gutted the Paris landmark, Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame helped ...

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 ...

A Hartsdale woman who led the restoration of a Revolutionary War-era house is set to receive one of France’s highest civilian ...

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 ...