The film recounts the events of the French Revolution through the perspective of George Ro, a lawyer from the Third Estate. He reflects on the significant changes in France from the monarchy to the ...

Ridley Scott is set to release "Napoleon," an historical war epic about the infamous French military commander, this fall in theaters ... the end of the French monarchy. With the French revolution ...

Voting to abolish the monarchy once and for all, the Convention declared the institution of a new world and a new beginning for France, with all state documents from that day forth bearing the ...

The French success was transformative. The next day, back in Paris, the National Convention abolished the monarchy and declared the new Republic. Goethe, who was at Valmy, was to write that from ...

“Critics of the monarchy accused her of multiple affairs, paedophilia, espionage, even bestiality,” explains royal historian Gareth Russell, who is working on a book about the fall of the French ...