Franklin combined art with diplomacy to create the Libertas Americana. For the United States’ 250th anniversary, the Paris ...

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A new Hollywood epic traces Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise and fall through his checkered relationship with his first wife The new ...

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of ...

France’s path to modernity was not clean or peaceful — it was built through revolution, terror, empire, restoration, and repeated collapse. The monarchy fell under the weight of debt, inequality, and ...

Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story ...

Cutline: Anna and Watson between the portraits of Maximilian Robespierre and Benjamin Franklin on the terrace of the oldest restaurant in Paris, Le Procope, a shrine to the French Revolution of 1789.

The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning in 1789. The revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, and ...

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As a scandalous image of shameless masculine power and sensual strength, Thomas Lawrence’s spectacular painting Satan Summoning his Legions seemed to be a subversive advertisement for the libertine ...