But the Reign of Terror, which began a few years after the 1789 revolution, was itself abusive, characterized by his Committee of Public Safety's efforts purge France of perceived enemies of the ...

A Constantinople correspondent writes to us as follows with reference to a remarkable centenarian who had been a friend of Robespierre: "Constantinople has just lost its oldest inhabitant in the ...

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It’s September 1793 and a reign of terror was the order of the day in France. Laws were passed to arrest political enemies, old and new. The definition of ...

They kept their heads in the Reign of Terror, then embraced hedonism A subculture of young French aristocrats approached life -- and art -- with a perverse fervor ...

Ten days after the execution of the martyrs, the principal motor of the Terror, Maximilien Robespierre, ... At least 35,000 people perished in the Reign of Terror, ...

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When Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died this month at age 102, there were numerous interviews with his descendants. And they continued to do ...

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial has its U.S. premiere at Film Forum in New York.