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The house where Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just lived as a teenager in the rural town of Blérancourt, now a museum.

Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1809. Malmaison Museum.

Siege of Toulon, 1793. Painting by Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort.

On 7 February 1807, the first day of the Battle of Eylau, French and Russian forces battled over the church and cemetery of the village of Eylau, each pouring more men into the slaughter. The French possessed the cemetery by day's end, though...

Commemorative plaque of the first synod in the Désert at Montèzes near Monoblet, organized by Antoine Court in 1715.

Emperors Napoleon I of France and Francis II of Austria meet after the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805) to discuss terms of peace. Oil on canvas painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812. Palace of Versailles.

A painting portraying Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes, State minister of Foreign Affairs (1717-1787). Oil on canvas painting, by Antoine-François Callet (1741-1823). From the Palace of Versailles collection.

Jean Cavalier, Camisard leader, painting by Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, 1864. Musée du Désert, France.

Terracotta bust of Charles-François Dumouriez by Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1792. Fine Arts Museum of Angers, France.

Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793) was the queen of France during the turbulent final years of the Ancien Régime and the subsequent French Revolution (1789-1799). With the ascension of her husband Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792), she became...