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 ...

In fact, France’s support for the revolutionaries in the American War of Independence had a far greater impact on its finances, costing over a billion livres (French currency of the period).

It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

White House press secretary's remarks come in the wake of French politician Raphaël Glucksmann teasing that the U.S. should ...

The unconventional artistic rebellion of surrealism may seem a long way removed from the sober, disciplined work of Marxist ...

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 ...

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 ...