Despite its symbolic heft, the key to the Bastille is fairly unremarkable: seven inches of wrought iron with fleur-de-lis teeth. George Washington treasured it. Upon receiving the key in 1790, he ...

The Princess of Walesdelighted royal fans on Monday when she uploaded a social media post featuring impressive portraits ...

The Destruction of the Bastille, an ink drawing painted only four weeks after the storming of the Bastille and the start of the French Revolution, and then gifted to George Washington by his close ...

One of George Washington’s prized possessions was an ink-wash drawing of the Bastille, the Parisian prison stormed by French revolutionaries in 1789. He mounted it in the entryway of his Mount Vernon ...

An ink-wash drawing once owned by President George Washington will be going under the hammer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The work of art, "The Destruction of the Bastille," will be offered as a ...