Many British radicals interpreted the early events of the French Revolution in mythic terms – akin to the Christian apocalypse. In 1789, many...
French Revolution
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...