The motto of the French Revolution was “Liberty, equality, fraternity.” It could also have been “Liberty, equality, fashion.” Postscript: By the end of 1804, Napoleon had grown wary of ...

“Fashion in the French Revolution” (which doesn’t feature in Higonnet’s source notes). Many plates were online long before the National Library of France digitized its complete collection ...

In “Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution,” Anne Higonnet explains how, a century before Coco Chanel released women from their restrictive dress, a trio of women ...

The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society.

While the precise origins of the jewel remain unclear, some specialists believe it was crafted for royalty or a high-ranking ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...