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

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

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

Nostradamus Predictions 2025: Nostradamus, a famous French astrologer and physician, died on July 2, 1566. On his death ...

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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.

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Paris is a city deeply entrenched in our collective world culture. Some feel it’s a city of romance. Others look at its ...

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The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An ...

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