Lethière (1760–1832) was, until the Clark and the Louvre joined in this show to survey his career, an unremembered history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... It was the June Rebellion in 1832, also known as the Paris Uprising, that the author Victor Hugo used as inspiration for his historical ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...