Umberto Giordano’s tragedy of love undone by the French Revolution has returned, but as an evening of coarse music making.

George Mason University Political Scientist Jack Goldstone joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the king’s intentions.

Last week we have seen Prussia shock the European theatre under Frederick the Great. As he passed away childless, his nephew, ...

Rewarding strong-stomached readers with a riveting tale, Antoine de Baecque’s Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution (Routledge) limns the era at a visceral level. True, bodies are ...

Raymond Aceto’s well-seasoned bass boomed imposingly for the pompous Marquis de la Force, father of Blanche and the Chevalier de la Force. The latter was vividly portrayed by Martin Luther Clark, with ...

“In this period, the head and body of Monsieur Foulon are introduced in triumph, the head on a pike, the body dragged naked on the earth …,” reads the diary of Gouverneur Morris, later the U.S.

Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek and ...