It’s quite a legacy to have your very name a byword for the gleeful infliction of pain and humiliation. First entering the lexicon in the late 1880s, the term ‘sadism’ was coined from the depraved ...

Two hundred years after his final American tour, the Marquis de Lafayette is set to make a symbolic return to North Jersey. On Saturday, the Paterson Museum Foundation will host a celebration at the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - People came together on Sunday for a celebration in Huntsville, honoring the war hero Marquis de Lafayette. He’s the French noble who joined George Washington’s Continental ...

This week we step back in time 200 years to the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to New Orleans. On April 10, the Cabildo will open a new exhibit, called Bienvenue Lafayette, inside the building which ...

Several communities across the state are celebrating the 200th year anniversary of a French general’s farewell tour through North Carolina, now through next month. General Marquis de Lafayette was ...

Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine. In ...

As a theatrical production in London and New York, the Royal Shakespeare Company's version, under Peter Brook's direction, of Peter Weiss' play has elements to make it impressive and stunning, also ...

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (German: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul ...