Ever since he lost his head to Madame Guillotine in 1794, the historical jury has been out on the life and legacy of Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary and architect of la Grande Terreur.

‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ portrays the French Revolution, but has it exaggerated the guilt of leader of the Revolution Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre? (AP) More than 200 years after ...

LONDON (Reuters) - He was riddled with jaundice, pock-marked, bloody and twitchy. A new scientific analysis shows French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre was probably suffering from an ...

Maximilien de Robespierre, the infamous French revolutionary leader, may have been suffering from a rare immune disorder when he was guillotined in 1794, experts say. The evidence emerged after ...

Robespierre, the monster of the French Revolution has been given a moden diagnosis. Photo: Sabin Paul Croce/Flickr A defender of the poor who upheld the values of French Revolution or a monster who ...

He was riddled with jaundice, pock-marked, bloody and twitchy. A new scientific analysis shows French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre was probably suffering from an organ-destroying immune ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two and a quarter centuries after he was guillotined on what is now Place de la Concorde in Paris, Maximilien ...

Ever since the "prime public functionary" - previously known as Louis XVI - lost his head on the Place de la Révolution in Paris, Maximilien de Robespierre has been seen as the evil, green-eyed genius ...

Assassin's Creed: Unity has drawn ire from those who hail Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre as a hero of the Revolution and the people, as opposed to a bloodthirsty tyrant. In ...

The French state has stopped an auction of manuscripts written by French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre in Paris. The state preempted the sale of the collection, responding to an appeal from ...

According to the French revolutionary calendar, Year I began in September 1792 with the abolition of the Bourbon monarchy and the declaration of a republic. In the National Convention, the new ...

PARIS—A pair of researchers who gave the French revolutionary Robespierre a disputed 3D makeover raised the possibility Friday that the man best known for ...