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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the movement is gaining momentum, some users are pushing back on the digital guillotine efforts as ... During a 2018 interview with French fashion magazine Numéro, Lagerfeld criticized ...

The French guillotine, as we know it today, originated in late 1789. It should be noted that French physician and politician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine; however ...

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

On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was marched to the guillotine. His severed head was ... Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic ...