The display is timed for the anniversary of France’s abolition of the death penalty, and its honoring of the lawyer who ...

Marie Antoinette had four children, but tragedy and the French Revolution tore the queen apart from her offspring.

A museum in the city is honoring the legacy of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, who fought to repeal the death penalty in ...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release ...

The next African nation to get its independence, on New Year’s Day, 1960, is the French Cameroons (pop. 3,300,000), a California-sized, French-administered United Nations trust territory on the Guinea ...