MARIE-THERESE, CHILD OF TERROR: THE FATE OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE’S DAUGHTER By Susan Nagel Bloomsbury, $27.95, 432 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN The title of this gripping book tells it all: ...

professor at the School of Economics at University of New South Wales (Australia) Economist Pauline Grosjean examines the work of two American researchers, who have shown that soldiers sent to the US ...

A decorated gourd was thought to have once held a handkerchief dipped in the blood of Louis XVI.(Courtesy Davide Pettener/Paolo Garagnani) When Louis XVI went to the guillotine on January 21, 1793, ...

On December 26, 1792, Romain de Sèze, a defense attorney for deposed King Louis XVI, presented a defense of his client. The former King was on trial before a French Revolutionary court on thirty-three ...

Experts believe up to 500 people guillotined in period may be buried in Chapelle Expiatoire Experts believe the remains of up to 500 people guillotined during the French Revolution may be buried in ...

American high school history courses briefly mention that French intervention helped seal the success of the American Revolution, yet the emphasis in U.S. civic discourse always remains firmly fixed ...