This Saturday, May 31 marks a turning point in the history of French football. 32 years after the crowning of its historical ...

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Michelle Young’s biography of Rose Valland examines how a museum archivist was able to strike a blow against Nazis' art ...

Nowhere else in the world does a palace quite like the Europeans. European Palaces were designed to show off the power and ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s ... The guillotine’s story in France had begun just a few years prior. In late 1789, during a discussion ...

The photos were all taken in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which saw the ousting ... sanctions against Iran by the US, the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany, many travel industry ...

National archives show Phrygian caps were worn during major events throughout France's history, from the construction of the Notre-Dame cathedral in 1163 to the Revolution of 1789 to the last ...

the French national day to commemorate the storming of the Bastille — a prison in 18th century France — during the French Revolution. The event was hosted by French ambassador to Jamaica ...

When Paris crowds seized the French king’s fortress in July 1789, they unwittingly created a model for every subsequent upheaval. From the Russian Revolution through the “color revolutions ...

In 1789, they both contributed paintings to John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, a commercial exhibition space on Pall Mall which commissioned the best artists of the day to make pictures of ...

The author of classic works such as The Great Cat Massacre and The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France ... road to revolution. The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789, by Robert ...