The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...

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

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, ...

Ahead, see where the ill-fated royal's precious gems ended up after the French Revolution. In 1772, King Louis XV commissioned a diamond necklace from Parisian jewelers Charles Auguste Boehmer and ...

Victor Dupont, a 27-year-old French PhD student, was detained in Tunisia for 27 days, raising diplomatic tensions. His arrest ...

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 ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

By Priscilla JepchumbaFormer NRL player Suliasi Vunivalu is set to step away from rugby in Australia, having been left out of ...

In the 14th century, power in Europe was largely in the hands of the aristocracy. Surprisingly, one-fifth of the rulers were ...

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 ...