Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Thousands were executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror, a bloodbath justified by Robespierre as essential for preserving the purity of the revolution.

A lonely caravan, ambushed on the open frontier, circles the wagons. The settlers bring out their long rifles to fight for survival. They endure the first onslaught, but dusk is falling – and the ...

Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, became threatened by the country’s then new ...

What we’re witnessing in government right now—across the Departments of Energy, Veterans Affairs, Education, and beyond—is not only a bonfire of cruelty but a reign of ineptitude.

Before dying, his father made a decision that may have saved his son’s life: after his wife contracted smallpox, he ordered that Louis Philippe and his younger sister, Bathilde, be inoculated by the ...

As revolutionaries geared up for the execution of the king at the end of 1792, Maximilien Robespierre, the revolutionary who would soon go on to play a key role in the Reign of Terror, proclaimed ...

A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope Francis on December 18.

It was a rare decision by Pope Francis that no one in the Church disagreed with – on Wednesday he decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints.

Within the following few days, Maximilien Robespierre himself was executed, bringing an end to the bloody Reign of Terror.