Compare the list of leaders in the French Revolution with that of the leaders of the Revolution in England — Eliot, Pym, Hampden, Cromwell, Ireton — in character, capacity, loftiness of aim.

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 ...

French Revolution Divorce Papers and Sauce-Stained Sleeves Reveal the Personal Side of Napoleon’s Rise and Fall More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction.

In Revolution-era Paris, three radically chic media stars swept away centuries of strictures about what women should wear and how they should live. A new book unveils the other French Revolution.