A cult of martyrdom began forming around Charles Stuart—who, as reigning monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland, was known as King Charles I—almost immediately after his execution for high treason ...

The V&A Museum is showing the influence of the most fashionable queen in history, Marie Antoinette, on design, fashion, film, ...

On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, a moment that changed the course of the French Revolution and sent shockwave ...

Set amid the rolling countryside of north Essex, Gosfield Hall has enjoyed several intriguing periods in its nearly 1,000-year history.

Common Sense,” the pamphlet that helped spark the American Revolution, turns 250 this month. But despite its author’s ...

This past Saturday, January 10, was the 250 anniversary of the publication of Thomas Paine’s blistering defense of the ordinary man standing against autocracy, “Common Sense.” It was also the day, 63 ...

The French Revolution began in 1789, and tensions peaked with King Louis and Marie Antoinette’s failed escape attempt in 1791, which ultimately led to their execution in 1793. You’ve likely heard this ...

Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the French aristocracy that he was the royal couple’s long-lost progeny. Some ...

“Jacques-Louis David,” the Louvre’s exhibition marking the bicentennial of the artist’s death, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see the greatest works of the artist who defined French art from ...

When Benjamin Franklin left Paris in 1785, after nearly nine years as the American emissary to France, King Louis XVI presented him with a parting gift. The token exuded the rococo extravagance of the ...

Louisville officials hope to restore and redisplay the defaced King Louis XVI statue by 2026 for the United States' 250th anniversary. The statue was removed in 2020 after being vandalized during ...