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Louis XVII of France was the regnal name of Louis-Charles de France (l. 1785-1795), the younger son of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) and Queen Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793). Although Louis-Charles never actually reigned as king...

The Revolt of 13 Vendémiaire Year IV (5 October 1795) was a royalist uprising in Paris during the French Revolution (1789-1799). In response to the anti-royalist policies of the Thermidorian Reaction, 25,000 Parisians rose in revolt but were...

Red Horse (Tasunka Luta, l. c. 1822-1907) was a chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux best known for his firsthand account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) and his 42 ledger book drawings depicting the engagement. The...

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 and a professional...

Her name echoes down the corridors, in classrooms and in books, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt was a great French Egyptologist and, in the opinion of the writer, a woman strong and determined enough to have been the first female to direct...

In this gallery, we present reconstructions of seven famous palaces through history. The palaces, presented here in the chronological order of their construction, are: - Palace of Knossos, Crete - Qal'eh Dokhtar Palace, Fizurabad -...

Death of the Princess de Lamballe, oil on canvas by Léon-Maxime Faivre, 1908. The painting depicts the murder of the Princess de Lamballe in the September Massacres, during the French Revolution (1789-99). Lamballe, a wealthy, widowed noblewoman...

King Louis XVI of France is accosted by sans-culottes in the Tuileries Palace on 20 June 1792. To show he is unafraid, the king is seen holding the hand of a grenadier over his heart, saying, "See? It does not palpitate." Engraving by Jean-Baptiste...

The image depicts one of the many improvised tribunals set up by sans-culottes to condemn prisoners to death during the September Massacres of 1792. This illustration specifically shows the trial of Jourgniac de Saint-Méard, a soldier who...

The crowd of Parisians sans-culottes invade the Tuileries Palace during the Demonstration of 20 June 1792. By Jan Bulthuis/Johannes Allart, c. 1800. Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille.