Join Tom and Dominic in the third part of our second season of the French Revolution, as they look at gruesome methods of execution under the French monarchy, the changing role of executioners, how ...

Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and confirmed ...

July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people have had their heads chopped off. Republican leader Robespierre gets guillotined as well. The Revolution is over. January 2024. Members of the international ...

The guillotine was first used during the French Revolution, with 16,000 people beheaded between 1793 and 1794, most notably King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.

Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and confirmed ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French ...

On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was marched to the guillotine. His severed head ... would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided: "Your prophecies," he wrote to Adams, ...

Theatre company YESYESNONO has established itself as a force via a series of subversive Edinburgh Fringe hits that served as de facto solo vehicles for company artistic director Sam Ward.

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... For this she was branded a traitor and sent to the guillotine on 3 November 1793. You might be under the impression that once King ...