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 ...

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 ...

The Reign of Terror, The Fourth Dimension. This is the first Doctor Who story to feature any filming on location. This is limited to a few short sequences of the Doctor walking through the ...

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 ...

By the 1980s, "terrorism" was being applied to all manner of political violence. There was a flap over the word in 1989 when New York Times editor A. M. Rosenthal attacked Christopher Hitchens for ...

Researchers in a letter in the British journal Lancet published Friday said their review of the death mask and descriptions of Robespierre's ailments indicate he could have had sarcoidosis, a rare ...

In December 1793, with the executions well under way (they amounted to 30,000 or more in a two-year period), the “Constitution of the Terror” officially inaugurated the “Government of the ...

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 ...

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