Maximilien Robespierre is pictured in the cart being escorted to his execution on July 28, 1794. Dressed in brown and wearing a hat, the figure holds a handkerchief to his mouth as his younger brother ...

Not knowing what to do or say, Lalladiere stood looking at Eleanore Duplay in the doorway of the house where Robespierre resided. "Yes--?" she said questioningly, staring back at him. She wore, on her ...

A month later, in the hottest part of the summer, during the time on the revolutionary calendar called Thermidor, the conspiracy against Robespierre was realized. Tallien, ever skillful, played a ...