Articles with keyword "Ancien Régime"
Feature
Burying Molière
How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.
Curio
Remains of the Day
By Between June 14 and July 27, 1794, hundreds of nobles, shopkeepers, clergy, corset makers, vintners, and other “suspicious” citizens were executed by guillotine at Place de la Nation in Paris.