Exploring the legacy of the empire and state-system imposed on Europe during the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon has...
France
During one attack in 1393, Charles could not remember his name, did not know he was king,...
By the end of the thirteenth century the social context for the abandonment of infants and children...
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
Popular uprisings and resistance to taxation played havoc with the nine departments into which the National Assembly...
It was an era and a culture that was both misogynist and racist, in which Jews from...
The Exchange of Arrows Between Death and Cupid, ca. 1665–1701, Pierre Landry (publisher). Engraving. The Getty Research...
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These words could have been reasonably spoken...
The politicization of the French peasantry before and during the Revolutionary period has been the topic of...
The concept of absolutism – the divine right to rule – dominated the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
His name is associated with the Reign of Terror which claimed thousands of lives of “enemies of...
Calling the French liars, atheists, and libertines, undoubtedly evoked a general sense of immorality and disrepute. In...
Many British radicals interpreted the early events of the French Revolution in mythic terms – akin to the Christian apocalypse. In 1789, many...
Set of Post Stamps “Kyivan Princesses on European Thrones”, Ukraine’s Postal Service, 2016 She was an influential advisor...
This image shows the machine works of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz, Germany. Hartmann was one of the most successful entrepreneurs...
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 ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495, reaching Scotland in 1497 and Russia in 1499. By...
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)...