The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and ...

France takes on Russia and the monarchy is finally abolished. “From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world’s history, and you can all say you were present at its birth!” ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... are the events of 5 October 1789. On this day, thousands of women from Paris marched on the Palace of Versailles, expressing their ...

The Place de la Bastille is often considered the epicenter of the French Revolution. It was here, on July 14, 1789, that ...

That day, most agree, marked the beginning of the American Revolution. There had been other ... If so, we must give no little credit to the French, whose army and navy contributed mightily to ...

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 ...