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The Battle of Wattignies was a significant battle in the War of the First Coalition, part of the wider French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). It was fought on 15-16 October 1793 between a ragtag army of the First French Republic...

The Roman incorporation of Gaul began with the campaigns of Julius Caesar (58–51 BCE) and resulted in the gradual transformation of a diverse Celtic...

Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just (1767-1794), a leader of the Jacobin Club and of the Mountain political faction, oil on canvas portrait by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1793. Only 25 when he was elected to the National...

A statue of an Orisha from the Yoruba religion, Nigeria, 19th century. African Museum of Lyon.

Death of King Chilperic I (l. c. 539-584), by Évariste Vital Luminais, 1885. Hôtel de ville, Lyon.

A medieval manuscript (c. 1280 CE) illustration depicting the 1189-91 CE siege of Acre during the Third Crusade. (Bibliotheque Municipale de Lyon, France)

An example of a 17th-century flintlock firearm mechanism. A piece of flint was held in the vice which the trigger pulled down to strike a metal bar which created a spark to ignite the priming powder which then set...

Child Asleep in a Cradle Under the Care of a Brave Dog Who Just Killed Near Him a Huge Viper, oil on canvas painting by Jeanne Élisabeth Chaudet, c. 1801. Inspired by a late 18th-century book of fables, the story...

A 19th century CE painting by Claudius Jacquand showing Sir Thomas More (1478-1535 CE) with his wife and daughter during his imprisonment in the Tower of London for treason against Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547...

Terracotta medallion depicting a charioteer in his quadriga, holding the victor's crown and palm branch, from the Rhône Valley, dated to the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE. In Rome, chariot racing was organized into...