De Gouges and the noted Girondin Madame Roland, who followed her under the blade five days later, were betrayed victims of the unfinished business of a general cleaning up of moderates and dissidents ...

She supported the abolition of slavery, fought for equality between men and women, campaigned for the right of free union and divorce, and defended democracy ...

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...

A giant guillotine. An assassination plot. Comedy, companionship and sorrow. “The Revolutionists” had it all. The two-act play written by Lauren Gunderson ran last weekend at the Hal & Martha Hyer ...

Nicole Rieu, the 1975 French Eurovision representative with 4th-placed entry Et bonjour à toi l’artiste (see here), will be back on the stage of the Théâtre de l’Essaïon in Paris with a brand new show ...

The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...