The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Rural, pretty Williamstown is a culture hub on the Vermont border ... history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the Bonaparte era from the wee pharaoh’s rise ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...