The du Pont family has had a hold on Delaware since a nobleman in the court of King Louis XVI escaped the guillotine and came to the United States.
A creepy painting that survived fires, a doll that can enter dreams and commit murder, a rocking chair for the "beast," and more, these are haunted objects galore.
Baroque master Bernini came to Paris with a radical vision for the Louvre and left with a bruised ego after a snub from Louis XIV.
Twenty-three years later she faced an enormous guillotine. As she climbed the scaffold, she accidentally stepped on her executioner’s toe and exclaimed: “ Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l’ai pas fait ...
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Was the King to Blame for the French Revolution??
France stumbled into crisis in the late 1780s: bread shortages, crushing debt, an unfair tax system, and the spread of Enlightenment ideas all eroded the monarchy’s legitimacy. This video examines ...
This weekend, a new exhibition, Marie Antoinette Style, opens at the V&A in South Kensington and explores how history has portrayed the famously controversial French Queen.
In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor received a unanimous vote in the Senate to become the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1991, Armenia became the 12th Soviet republic to declare ...
Once the most despised woman in Europe, Marie Antoinette was vilified as a libertine, a conspirator and a spendthrift – then publicly executed. Now an exhibition explores her story.
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