In 1793, Jacques Louis David, the official artist of the French Revolution, painted the Death of Marat as a tribute to his slain friend, the revolutionary propagandist Jean-Paul Marat, in the wake ...

Movies about the French Revolution are diverse, including costume dramas, horror films, comedies, and more, all set during ...

Today is Bastille Day, the national holiday of France, a country I love. Bastille Day is always difficult, because I want to celebrate France, but not the French Revolution. Why not the French ...

The French Revolution—as opposed to the American Revolution—turned from the limited goal of ending arbitrary government to a maximalist goal of overturning all society and culture in the name ...

The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. Between Sept. 5, 1793, and July 27, 1794, France's ...

David A. Bell teaches French history at Princeton. His “Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Two hundred twenty-six ...

The French Revolution Offers a Warning About Presidential Immunity 7 minute read 'Call for the Last Victims of the Terror' - painting by Charles Louis Lucien Müller, c. 1850.