Revolutionary figures Georges Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat and others all make appearances in France's school curriculum in fourth, eighth and 11 th grade. While there are plenty of ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

How do you perform a Ninja Gaiden 4 Guillotine Throw? There are several signature combat moves in Team Ninja's action game series, but none are truly as iconic as the Guillotine Throw. Ryu Hayabusa ...

Chapelle Expiatoire is a chapel and a national monument in the heart of Paris. It dates from the 19 th century AD and was built by King Louis XVIII, who was restored to the throne after the fall of ...

As soon as the audience enters the theatre they are confronted with a guillotine, the most iconic instruments of execution of the French Revolution. This guillotine, though, and indeed all of the set ...

Dan Edelstein is Author of The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin (Princeton University Press) Commenting on the importance of the French Revolution in 1972, the Chinese ...

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It’s the French Revolution and four prominent women — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian spy Marianne Angelle and Queen Marie Antoinette — find themselves holed up ...

“This is not the way to start a comedy,” quips 18th-century playwright Olympe de Gouges, staring at the guillotine looming upstage. Or is it? In “The Revolutionists,” now onstage at CNY Playhouse, ...

A gala celebrated the opening of “Sade: Marquis of the Shadows, Prince of the Enlightment” at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts. Tomas van Houtryve The Count de Sade, the modern descendant of the ...

Friend played Olympe De Gouges, a playwright and social reformer who was executed by guillotine by leader of the French Revolution Maximilien Robespierre. The three other characters visit Olympe de ...