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The image depicts one of the many improvised tribunals set up by sans-culottes to condemn prisoners to death during the September Massacres of 1792. This illustration specifically shows the trial of Jourgniac de Saint-Méard, a soldier who...

Depiction of the September Massacres (2-7 September 1792) at the prison of Abbaye, where around two-thirds of prisoners were murdered. Watercolor by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, 19th century. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Image depicting the murder of 40 women accused of prostitution in the women's prison of La Salpêtrière in the September Massacres, during the French Revolution. By an anonymous author, c. 1793.

Death of the Princess de Lamballe, oil on canvas by Léon-Maxime Faivre, 1908. The painting depicts the murder of the Princess de Lamballe in the September Massacres, during the French Revolution (1789-99). Lamballe, a wealthy, widowed noblewoman...

Depiction of the Insurrectionists invading the Legislative Assembly following the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792, to demand the overthrow of King Louis XVI of France during the French Revolution. Work by Francois Pascal...

Swiss Guards defend the staircase of the Tuileries Palace from rebel National Guards, during the Insurrection of 10 August 1792, part of the French Revolution. Painting by Henri-Paul Motte, 1892. National Library of France.

A bust of the Athenian orator Isocrates, from page 97 of World's Famous Orations, Vol 1, by William Jennings Bryan and Francis Whiting Halsey, 1906.

The tomb of Isocrates, Athenian orator, by Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1789. Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

Tower of Constance, Aigues-Mortes, France.

Tower of Constance and Ramparts on an early 20th-century postcard.