In the early 2010s, two ornate chairs said to have once belonged on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles appeared on the ...

Before her failed effort to flee Paris in 1791, Marie Antoinette handed a diamond to her loyal hairdresser. It's now ...

The statue, honoring Louisville's namesake, was spray painted during the Breonna Taylor protests in 2020. Now, it's set to be restored. Billy Joel cancels all shows after brain disorder diagnosis ...

The French cast is led by Ludivine Sagnier ... Myself and Mum”) and Louis Garrel (“The Dreamers,” “Little Women”). “Après” is produced by Ilya Stewart and Aleksandr Fomin ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The documentary “Kings of Pastry,” which looks at the extraordinarily intense competition for the top pastry prize in ...

If you travel to France these days, you’ll be dealing in European currency rather than French currency ... it with the silver ecu and gold Louis coins. However, the term “franc” remained ...

“The treasury was empty by the time they took the throne,” Weber says of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Even so, the king chose to send French troops to the American colonies to fight ...

unveiled the statue of King Louis XVI yesterday (July 17, 1967) morning.” Delmas said: “Let this statue say ‘No, the French have not changed. The French have not forgotten the Hills of ...

Arnaud was sentenced last year to five years in jail on national security charges Paris: French citizen Louis Arnaud returned to Paris Thursday after being held in Iran since September 2022 and ...

"Our diplomatic service is still at work" to free three other French citizens: Jacques Paris, Cecile Koller and a man named only as Olivier held in Iranian jails, he added. Arnaud, a 36-year-old ...

A collection of French silver ... During the reign of Louis XV, the coin’s value varied between 3, 5 and 6 silver livres, and was worth 6 livres during the reign of Louis XVI.

As Jha, an economist at Stanford, and Wilkinson, a University political scientist at Yale University, demonstrate in the study, the royal soldiers sent by French king Louis XVI to fight alongside ...