Ending the Terror makes accessible a major revisionist assessment of a crucial moment in the history of the French Revolution. The months that followed the fall of ...

The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, ...

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

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... This rebellion took place 43 years after the storming of the Bastille!

It was a rare decision by Pope Francis that no one in the Church disagreed with – on Wednesday he decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints.

On June 17, 1789, after Louis denied its petition for a ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies transferred there after centuries of cemetery ... remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite ...