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 ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

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

whose family kept it for generations On This Day in History Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common ...

About a hundred people died during the Storming of the Bastille, and the event is now remembered as one of the pivotal events of the French Revolution. Over the 10 years of upheaval that followed ...

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 ...