The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French ...

France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday, the holiday marking the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in ...

The French Revolution, which took place between 1789 and 1799, is one of the most significant events in the world.

Thousands of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison, in Paris on 1789. The Bastille symbolised the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the ...

The Bastille Day parade in 2017 on the Champs-Élysées in Paris inspired Donald Trump to plan a military parade in Washington ...

The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789, is seen as a defining event in the French Revolution. But how does the ...

The French Ambassador’s residence in Kampala was abuzz with activity as guests gathered to celebrate Bastille Day, a pivotal ...

The French Revolution Pamphlets collection at Brandeis University's Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department consists of 94 documents (three linear feet) published ...

The French painter and draftsman, Jean Louis Prieur, the younger (1759-1795) is principally known for his drawings, a few shown here, of the French revolution. Engraved by Pierre Gabriel Berthault (ca ...

Jacques Louis David’s ‘Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze)’ is a tense painting created just before the chemist was guillotined.