I just got back from having the best of times on a visit to Paris, France. But every morning there, I’d spend a few minutes checking for updates on the worst of times in Washington, D.C. I’m back in ...

I was pondering this question when I saw a six-hour movie on the French Revolution and its consequences on French society. The movie was all about 'Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!' the slogans that ...

Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published in the New York Review of Books (23 June 2022) has led me to reflect (or more accurately, further reflect) on both my short time as an active ...

Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels in ...

LONDON (Reuters) – He was riddled with jaundice, pock-marked, bloody and twitchy. A new scientific analysis shows French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre was probably suffering from an ...

While historical record includes a wealth of evidence that backs up negative attitudes towards the gathering masses, it is also chockful of individuals who were behaving badly too and yet they tend to ...

A death mask made by Madame Tussaud has been used to recreate the likeness of Maximilien de Robespierre - the infamous revolutionary leader. Madame Tussaud, now known for her world-renown waxworks ...

I was pondering this question when I saw a six-hour movie on the French Revolution and its consequences on French society. The movie was all about 'Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!' the slogans that ...