Science and Splendor," a new exhibition illustrates how the royal court encouraged innovation during the reigns of Louis XIV, ...

On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States' first known case of novel ...

The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in "The Flood," a stark study of the king's last days in which the luxurious trappings of French monarchy disappear before ...

In 1793, a demonstration was held in downtown Paris in memory of Louis XVI, who was executed by the guillotine during the ...

On January 21, 1950, former US State Department official Alger Hiss was found guilty of perjury in connection with testimony given to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Learn more about ...

Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing ... of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where ...

free speech and fair courts. These were the ideals of the early French Revolution: liberté, égalité, fraternité. Louis XVI faced a clear choice. Could he accept equality and liberty for all ...