The display is timed for the anniversary of France’s abolition of the death penalty, and its honoring of the lawyer who ...

The Women’s March on Versailles was one of the most dramatic moments of the French Revolution. It was a bold and desperate act driven by hunger, anger, and a burning desire for justice. The pivotal ...

IN The Atlantic for October, 1890, we reviewed Captain Mahan’s Influence of Sea Power upon History ; pointing out the originality and worth of the book, and expressing the hope that it would be ...

Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their deaths on July 17, 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the frightening period of the French Revolution that oversaw the execution of at ...