They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

Miniature guillotine, French revolution era, Musée Carnavalet. Les musées de la ville de Paris. Among those who died under the “national razor” (the guillotine’s nickname) were King Louis ...

The guillotine became France’s official method of capital punishment in spring 1792. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French ...

Louis XVI's head didn't see the end of the French Revolution. | Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images . It’s generally assumed that the guillotine was named after some guy named ...

The City of Light. The Capital of Love. A center of haute couture and haute cuisine. Paris has many faces. Now, Paris City ...

When thinking about French Revolution movies, images of rich nobles beheaded by the guillotine, angry mobs wearing their tri-colored cockades while fighting for justice, or major events like the ...

Myth: Joseph Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine, was beheaded by the very device he had introduced during the Terror, the period of political instability that followed the French Revolution.

The French Revolution reshaped execution, leading to the invention of the guillotine. Show more During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in ...

Wellcome CollectionFor a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered ...