What clothes do you wear to be killed in? What clothes do you wear to witness someone die? This was what was worrying Robert Badinter as he dressed on that cold, dank November morning in 1972. It was ...

Up at auction in Paris last week came a rusty, mildewed guillotine certified to have cut off more than 1,000 aristocratic heads during the French Revolution. After brisk bidding it was knocked down ...

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You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: Lee Hockstader’s latest column opens with a fact that floored me: For years after the 1969 moon ...

Christophe Février, a businessman and father of four from the small town of Château-Gontier in northwest France, decided in 2014 that there was something he must have: a guillotine. Christophe Février ...

This video documents the restoration of an Antique French Guillotine from 1930-1950, discovered by Tysytube at a flea market in southern France. The restoration process involves careful disassembly, ...

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 ...

The term “period costume drama” sounds as enticing as a whalebone corset. But when that period is the mid-to-late 18th century and the setting is France, pupils dilate and pulses quicken. That era of ...