Maximilien Robespierre is pictured in the cart being escorted to his execution on July 28, 1794. Dressed in brown and wearing a hat, the figure holds a handkerchief to his mouth as his younger brother ...

More often than not, the first thing that pops into a person’s head when he or she hears the words “French Revolution” is the guillotine, that exsanguinary instrument that, two centuries later, still ...