Joseph Vacher was executed via guillotine after he was found guilty of murder, but the true number of his victims remains a mystery.

French Reds want more green measures. The manifesto decrees moratoriums galore: on the use of pesticides, Sri-Lanka-style; on water reservoirs farmers use during droughts; even – mooted in ...

French politicians have been threatened with the guillotine if they support President Emmanuel Macron's Government in a parliamentary no-confidence vote today. Police said hundreds of macabre ...

Gold coins discovered in the wall of a French home have fetched nearly $4 million at auction. All in all, it was hiding ...

The guillotine is synonymous with the terror that followed the French Revolution, but did the machine's inventor really fall victim to his own creation? Myth: Joseph ...

That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An hour-and-a-half-long coach journey through the streets of Paris brought the monarch to the guillotine and ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons ...

as they look at gruesome methods of execution under the French monarchy, the changing role of executioners, how the Guillotine came to loom so large over the fate of so many… ...

it also saved her from the guillotine in revolutionary France. Few musicians throughout history can say their playing liberated them from imprisonment. Even fewer can say it literally saved their ...