On Jan. 21, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine. In 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners resigned ...

In fact, most people executed during the French Revolution – and particularly in its perceived bloodiest era, the nine-month “Reign of Terror” between autumn 1793 and summer 1794 – were ...

The French Revolution and British Popular Politics by Mark Philp (Cambridge University Press, 1991) Places to visit Visit Tom Paine's house in Sandwich , where he wrote his first pamphlet ...

The French republican calendar they promulgated in 1793 is an oddity by our standards. It kept the Gregorian calendar’s 12-month scheme but created 10-day weeks and three-week months.

In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.