Three decades after his death, François Mitterrand remains a defining yet contested figure in French politics. His biographer ...

PARIS, Dec. 27, 1916 (UP) - During the closing three months of 1916, three events took place in France which demonstrated as never at any previous period of war the apparently inexhaustible resources ...

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AT VERDUN, Dec. 18, 1916 (UP) - A roar that rocked the earth and sky, a seething volcano of fire and smoke - and an advance of clockwork precision every man abreast his fellow ...

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The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history.  Driven by drought and extreme winds, a massive fire burned its ...

Salvat's forthcoming exhibition, Latitude/Longitude, continues the artist's interest in the convergence of nature and human ...

Brigitte Bardot, the iconic international screen siren who retired from acting to become an animal rights activist, died ...

The tactically precise operation successfully extracted Mr. Maduro with no loss of American life, a result heralded by ...

Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the ...

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Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise from the ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip that's especially popular with travelers interested in seeing Monet's house and gardens or the D-Day Beaches. But if you only visit ...