More than four decades after the guillotine was last used in an execution in France, a 150-year-old replica of the device made famous in The Terror that followed the ...

Although many heads ultimately rolled during France’s years of political disarray, leaders hotly debated the morality of state-sponsored execution in the revolt’s idealistic early days. Unusual ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave ...

The remains of hundreds of people guillotined during the French Revolution may be buried in the walls of a Paris chapel. The Guardian reports that bones have been discovered in the wall cavities of ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

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 ...