The replica of the execution device made famous by the French Revolution sold for the equivalent of $9,355. But the auction drew criticism from a... More than four decades after the guillotine was ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

Pope Francis speaks to visitors in the Paul VI Audience Hall during his weekly general audience at the Vatican Dec. 18, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has declared as ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave ...

The grave of Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, was vandalised on Thursday, just hours before his induction into the country's Pantheon mausoleum of ...

August 1792. Twenty-thousand people storm the palace of King Louis XVI of France. Six months later the king is guillotined: France is a Republic. July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people have had their ...