“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These words could have been reasonably spoken...
French Revolution
His name is associated with the Reign of Terror which claimed thousands of lives of “enemies of...
Many British radicals interpreted the early events of the French Revolution in mythic terms – akin to the Christian apocalypse. In 1789, many...
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...
The start of the 19th century was a time of hostility between France and England, marked by...
Scenes of July 1830, a painting by Léon Cogniet alluding to the July revolution of 1830 / Wikimedia Commons...
Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre, c.1790, oil on fabric / Carnavalet Museum Lecture by Dr. John Merriman...
Prise du Palais des Tulleries, by Jacques_Bertaux, 1793 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Robert Schwartz E. Nevius...
By Catherine DelorsHistorian All portraits by by Jean-Marc Nattier unless otherwise stated NOTE: Louis XV’s son, Louis...