Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is “devoted to the anniversary of the Paris commune, mixing historical footage with images of present-day Paris.”

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...

The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzer...

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

After serving as an embassy secretary in London at the end of 1787, a position he didn't exactly enj...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering fro...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...