The Declaration, first adopted in August 1789, served as an affirmation of the core values of the...
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There is archaeological evidence to suggest that the Celts first cultivated the grape vine, Vitis vinifera, in...
The Exchange of Arrows Between Death and Cupid, ca. 1665–1701, Pierre Landry (publisher). Engraving. The Getty Research...
Paris Gay Pride 1982 A selection of four films from the years of gay liberation from the...
The Wanderings of a Comet, from Another World, 1844 / Internet Archive With its dreamlike inversions and kaleidoscopic...
Portrait of Edgar Quinet by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu / National Portrait Gallery Examining the connections Quinet made between...
Liberty leads the people / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the artistic expressions of the French Revolution. Edited by...
Marianne is the embodiment of the French Republic. Marianne represents the permanent values that found her citizens’...
The start of the 19th century was a time of hostility between France and England, marked by...
1789 Engraving, James Gillray / Public Domain Considering how Britain’s intellectual, political and creative circles responded to the...
Creative Commons Photo The tenacity of the Commune’s second life does not simply attest to its continuing...
The archives of American artistic production, letters, journals, and their contemporary circles in France can be brought...
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III Rarely in history has a country so blindly, maliciously and relentlessly turned against...
Scenes of July 1830, a painting by Léon Cogniet alluding to the July revolution of 1830 / Wikimedia Commons...
Medieval teaching scene. gallica.bnf.fr / BnF Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living inBritain also...
Detail from depiction of a Formosan funeral, featured in George Psalmanazar’s An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704)...
“We should make sure that the revolution is transmitted!” / CC-BY-NC 2.0 doc(q)man By Dr. Frederick C. Schneid /...
Queen Marie-Antoinette, about 1789, Pierre-Michel Alix after Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun. Etching and wash manner, printed in...
Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Jacques-Louis David, 1804. Oil on canvas, 23 2/4 x 19 1/2 in....
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793, oil on canvas, 165 x 64.96 cm (Royal Museum of Fine Arts...
Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre, c.1790, oil on fabric / Carnavalet Museum Lecture by Dr. John Merriman...