The Reign of Terror destroyed thousands of lives, but in the scientific community, Antoine Lavoisier's death was arguably the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 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 Revolution was not a forebear of American government, which should be clear to any sober student of history. The French Revolution—as opposed to the American Revolution—turned from ...

The French Revolution has been considered the forerunner of violent upheavals that have ended in despotism. And yet, in the 18th century, the two revolutions appeared to have many parallels.

Over the past few years, French Revolution-inspired imagery has crept into ads for products as diverse as breakfast cereal, perfume, airlines, and, now, energy drinks.