Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin on behalf of the Plague-Stricken

~The substitute family that David came to offer his pupils represented a larger, more organized version of what his own family had once been. He too had lost his father, and at the even earlier age of nine: Maurice David, bankrupt, disgraced and self-exiled in Normandy, had died in...

BY 1770, it was apparent that the Lenormand clan had succeeded all too well in cementing possession of the Bâtiments to the dynastic ambitions of the bourgeois royal favorite...

In his memoirs recounting the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt and Syria, Jacques-François Miot describes the French army’s bloody massacre of surrendered Arab prisoners after the siege of Jaffa...