Their joyful singing as they accepted their fate moves people to this day, the same way it moved the crowds at their execution. The French Revolution opposed the Church, and those crowds were not ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of ... When the decision was made to centralise all (legal) executions in Paris, 1,376 people were guillotined over just ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

It started as a protest over the price of bread, but the women's march on Versailles ended up shaking the foundations of the ...

The second revolution that engulfed France over the ... unpicking the very foundations of French society. The trial would serve to proclaim the institution of the new regime; a ritualistic rebirth ...

The French Revolution ... religion during the Revolution. The first of these pamphlets is undated and deals primarily with the oath required of clergy by the Civil Constitution during the early period ...

In Marie-Antoinette, British historian John Hardman notes a difference between the trials of the King and Queen before their executions ... moments of the French Revolution [and] the cruelest ...

But with the Revolution ... debate around the humanity and dignity of executions, would lead to the invention of a killing machine still used by the French state more than 150 years later ...