I use the dinner party analogy because Jones’ book is like a perfect little digest – and a great one to read if you’re due to ...

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 Lora Jones’s debut is largely concerned with the impact of the French Revolution on the role and advancement of women (despite women’s involvement in some of the revolution’s most ...

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 ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...