
Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the ...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitter...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

The hidden story of a savory local specialty found only on the French Riviera and the surrounding ar...

Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the liberation of France on June 6, 1944 from a very unique viewpoint...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...