In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave ...

Pope Francis speaks to visitors in the Paul VI Audience Hall during his weekly general audience at the Vatican Dec. 18, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has declared as ...

The replica of the execution device made famous by the French Revolution sold for the equivalent of $9,355. But the auction drew criticism from a... More than four decades after the guillotine was ...

A museum has assembled a 800-kilogram (1,700-pound) guillotine as part of reflection on Badinter's legacy President Emmanuel Macron was to preside over the ceremony The grave of Robert Badinter, the ...