French Revolution

One of the most notorious leaders of the French Revolution once lived here.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Among the collection is the shirt worn by Louis XVI when he was executed by guillotine, still marked by a few drops of blood.

Relics from as far back as the 16th century are on display in a city known for its playing card industry.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.