Maximilien Robespierre is pictured in the cart being escorted to his execution on July 28, 1794. Dressed in brown and wearing a hat, the figure holds a handkerchief to his mouth as his younger brother ...

No man is more responsible, or culpable, if one prefers, for transforming the guillotine into the symbol of the French Revolution than Maximilien Robespierre, the revolutionary orator and Jacobin who ...

The Reign of Terror, the guillotine, the Bastille, the Third Estate: The history of the French Revolution comes to life on ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Colin Jones, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, to discuss his new book, The Fall of ...

A massive exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of Jacques Louis-David, whose paintings chronicled the French Revolution and Napoleonic era in real time, opened at the Louvre in Paris.

On a warm but stormy summer Paris day in 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leader of the French Revolution, was taken to the Plaza de la Revolución and summarily executed by guillotine before a cheering ...