has interpreted the presence of Admiral BARBIER DE TINAN at Gaeta as a support to the cause of the Bourbon monarchy. As soon as it was known that the French were interfering, back came some of the ...

Historians have no doubt that bourbon was named after the House of Bourbon, a long line of European monarchs who ruled France from 1589 to 1792 (and again for short periods in the 1800s).

It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

The Leopard is a series that brings to life the grandeur and disorder of 19th-century Sicily. This show is based on a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

Painted after the July Revolution of 1830 in Paris, which finally brought an end to the Bourbon monarchy in France, Simon unpacks the legacy of this universal image of popular revolt across the ages.