The caps’ “ties to the radical phases of the French Revolution limited their use as symbols for American politicians after the mid-1790s,” says Andrew Detch, a historian at the University of ...

When French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison in July 1789, kicking off the French Revolution, they wore the caps, which have since been known as a symbol of liberty and the revolution.

Paris 2024 chooses symbol of French Revolution as Olympic mascot Organizers have chosen the Phrygian cap, or rather a pair of them, to embody the spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be ...

A woman wears a Phrygian cap during the convention of volunteers for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The hat is a national symbol of France, but its origins go back 3,000 years.

The French revolutionaries, on the other hand, were trying to destroy French society as they knew it and start over with something else. Bloodshed was in the revolution’s DNA.

Marianne isn’t the only symbol of the French Revolution to appear at the Summer Olympics Games and Summer Paralympics. In 2022, new mascots called the Phryges made their online debut.

Eugène Delacroix’s newly cleaned 1830 painting at the Louvre has transcended its origins over time—first becoming a stirring representation of French Republicanism, then of France itself, and ...